Just before the launch of Epsilon 6, Steve Carrell compares the Apollo 11 landing to "the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and of course the Miracle on Ice". While this might seem like a bizarrely random event to lump on with the others, it is probably a reference to Noah Emmerich's portrayal of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team's assistant coach Craig Patrick in the 2004 movie "Miracle".