Apollo 13
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- Pete Conrad: Jim, you think it's too late for him to abort?
- Jim Lovell: No, he still has time to get outta there, he just needs someone to wave him off.
- Andy: When I go up there on 19, I'm gonna take my entire collection of Johnny Cash along!
[Jim's daughter wants to go trick-or-treating as a hippie]
- Barbara Lovell: Dad, can I please wear this?
- Jim Lovell: Sure.
- Marilyn Lovell: Jim!
- Jim Lovell: No! No, absolutely not.
- Marilyn Lovell: Naturally, it's 13. Why 13?
- Jim Lovell: It comes after 12, hon.
- Jim Lovell: Just a little while longer Freddo. Just a little while longer, we're gonna hit that water in the South Pacific. Open up that hatch. It's 80 degrees out there.
- Fred Haise, Sr.: 80 degrees.
- Jack Swigert: So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side.
- Marilyn Lovell: Blanche, Blanche, these nice young men are going to watch the television with you. This is Neil Armstrong, and this is Buzz... Aldrin.
- Neil Armstrong: Hi.
- Blanche Lovell: Are you boys in the space program too?
- Chris Kraft: This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced.
- Gene Kranz: With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.
- Gene Kranz: Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?
- Sy Liebergot (EECOM): I'll get back to you, Gene.
- Henry Hurt: I, uh, I have a request from the news people.
- Marilyn Lovell: Uh-huh?
- Henry Hurt: They're out front here. They want to put a transmitter up on the lawn.
- Marilyn Lovell: Transmitter?
- Henry Hurt: Kind of a tower, for live broadcast.
- Marilyn Lovell: I thought they didn't care about this mission. They didn't even run Jim's show.
- Henry Hurt: Well, it's more dramatic now. Suddenly people are...
- Marilyn Lovell: Landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them - why should NOT landing on it be?
- Henry Hurt: Look, I, um, I realize how hard this is, Marilyn, but the whole world is caught up in this, it's historic-...
- Marilyn Lovell: No, Henry! Those people don't put one piece of equipment on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can take it up with my husband. He'll be HOME... on FRIDAY!
[On the night of the Apollo 11 landing]
- Jim Lovell: Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, and Neil Armstrong. Ha, ha, ha. Neil Armstrong!
- Jim Lovell: From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it's not a miracle, we just decided to go.
- Jim Lovell: We just lost the moon.
- Marilyn Lovell: I can't deal with cleaning up. Let's sell the house.
- Jim Lovell: Houston, we have a problem.
[as everyone is madly trying to identify the problem from instrument readings]
- Jim Lovell: Houston, we are venting something out into space. I can see it outside window one right now. It's definitely a... a gas of some sort.
[pause]
- Jim Lovell: It's got to be the oxygen.
- Jim Lovell: We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver's seat.
- Gene Kranz: EECOM, is this an instrumentation problem, or are we looking at real power loss here?
- Sy Liebergot: It's, it's reading a quadruple failure - that can't happen! It's, it's got to be instrumentation.
- Gene Kranz: We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option.
- Jack Swigert: Uh, well, if anyone from the, uh, from the IRS is watching, I... forgot to file my, my, my 1040 return. Um, I meant to do it today, but, uh...
- Sy Liebergot: [back at Mission Control] That's no joke. They'll jump on him!
[as they pass over the lunar surface]
- Fred Haise, Sr.: Mare Tranquilitatis - Neil and Buzz's old neighborhood. Coming up on Mount Marilyn. Jim, you've got to take a look at this.
- Jim Lovell: I've seen it.
- Gene Kranz: Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.
- Blanche Lovell: Are you scared?
- Susan Lovell: [nods]
- Blanche Lovell: Don't you worry. If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it.
- Gene Kranz: I don't care about what anything was DESIGNED to do, I care about what it CAN do.
- Gene Kranz: Goddammit! I don't want another ESTIMATE! I want procedures! NOW!
- Controller #1: Is it A.M. or P.M.?
- Controller #2: A.M. Very, very A.M.
- Jim Lovell: I've trained for the Fra Mauro highlands... and this is FLIGHT SURGEON HORSESHIT, Deke!
- Deke Slayton: Jim, if you hold out for Ken, you will not be on Apollo 13. It's your decision.
- Sy Liebergot: Flight... I recommend we shut down reactant valves to the fuel cells.
- Gene Kranz: What the hell good is that gonna do?
- Sy Liebergot: If that's where the leak is, we can isolate it. We can save what's left in the tanks and we can run on the good cell.
- Gene Kranz: You close 'em, you can't open 'em again! You can't land on the moon with one healthy fuel cell!
- Sy Liebergot: Gene, the Odyssey is *dying*. From my chair here, this is the last option.
- Senator: How do you go to the bathroom in space?
- Jim Lovell: Well, um... I tell you it's a very complicated procedure that involves cranking down the window and looking for a gas station.
- Jack Swigert: I've been going over the numbers again. Have they called up with a reentry plan yet? 'Cause we're coming in too shallow, we're coming in too damn fast.
- Jim Lovell: We're working on it, just hold on.
- Jack Swigert: Listen, they gave us too much delta vee, they had us burn too long. At this rate, we're going to skip out of the atmosphere and we're never going to get home.
- Fred Haise, Sr.: What are you talking about? How'd you figure that?
- Jack Swigert: I can add.
- Jim Lovell: They've got half the Ph.D.'s on the planet working on it.
- Fred Haise, Sr.: They say we're right on the money.
- Jack Swigert: And what if they had made a mistake and there was no way to correct it, why would they tell us? There's no reason to tell us!
- Fred Haise, Sr.: What do you mean they're not going to tell us? That's bullshit!
- Jim Lovell: Now listen, there's a thousand things that have to happen in order. We are on number eight. You're talking about number six hundred and ninety-two.
- Jack Swigert: And in the meantime, I'm trying to tell you we're coming in too fast. I think they know it, and I think that's why we don't have a God-damned reentry plan.
- Jim Lovell: That's duly noted, thank you Jack.
- Jim Lovell: Me and Jack are fixing to eat.
- Fred Haise, Sr.: Hey I'm hungry.
- Jim Lovell: Are you sure, Freddo?
- Fred Haise, Sr.: I'm so hungry I could eat the ass end out of a dead rhinoceros.
- Reporter: So you're not at all worried about the number 13? Even though you're launch is scheduled for 13:13, and you'll be entering the moon's atmosphere on April 13th.
- Jim Lovell: Well, uh, as a matter of fact, our own Ken Mattingly has done some... research on that particular phenomenon. Ken?
- Ken Mattingly: Well, I uh, had a black cat walk over a broken mirror under the lunar module ladder, and nothing bad's happened yet.
[Swigert has just successfully powered up the Command Module]
- Jack Swigert: Uplink completed. We got her back up, Ken. Boy, I wish you were here to see it.
- Ken Mattingly: I'll bet you do.
- Jim Lovell: Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you.
- Marilyn Lovell: Something broke on your daddy's spaceship.
- Jeffrey Lovell: Was it the door?
- Gene Kranz: Lunar module has just become a lifeboat.
- Jim Lovell: Gentlemen, what are your intentions? I'd like to go home.
- Ken Mattingly: 13, this is Houston, do you read?
- Jim Lovell: Roger that, Ken. Are the flowers blooming in Houston?
- Ken Mattingly: That's a negative, Jim. I do not have the measles.
[stares at the flight surgeon]
- Television Reporter: Is there a specific instance in an airplane emergency when you can recall fear?
- Jim Lovell: Uh well, I'll tell ya, I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It was the Shrangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan and my radar had jammed, and my homing signal was gone... because somebody in Japan was actually using the same frequency. And so it was - it was leading me away from where I was supposed to be. And I'm lookin' down at a big, black ocean, so I flip on my map light, and then suddenly: zap. Everything shorts out right there in my cockpit. All my instruments are gone. My lights are gone. And I can't even tell now what my altitude is. I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm thinking about ditching in the ocean. And I, I look down there, and then in the darkness there's this uh, there's this green trail. It's like a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. And it was the algae, right? It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship. And it was - it was - it was leading me home. You know? If my cockpit lights hadn't shorted out, there's no way I'd ever been able to see that. So uh, you, uh, never know... what... what events are to transpire to get you home.
- Fred Haise: It hurts when I urinate.
- Jim Lovell: Well, you're not getting enough water.
- Fred Haise: No, I'm drinkin' my rations, same as you... I think old Swigert gave me the clap. Been pissin' in my relief tube.
- Jim Lovell: Well, that'd be a hot one at the debriefing for the flight surgeons... Another first for America's spacemen.
[the crew has been "killed" in a simulator accident]
- Jim Lovell: Well, Deke; if I had a dollar for every time I've been killed in that thing, I wouldn't have to work for you. We'll get it together by launch time.
- Jim Lovell: Freddo, how long does it take to power up the LEM?
- Fred Haise, Sr.: Three hours by the checklist.
- Jim Lovell: We don't have that much time.
