Apollo 13 quotes

65 total quotes

Gene Kranz
Jack Swigert
Jim Lovell
Marilyn Lovell
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View Quote 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.

View Quote 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. Pull up, Neil!

View Quote Give Me A Go-No-Go For Launch

View Quote I'm gonna give these guys a beautiful ride.

View Quote Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you.

View Quote 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.

View Quote [After everyone applauds his new Apollo 13 vest] Save it for splashdown, guys.

View Quote Gentlemen, what are your intentions? I'd like to go home.

View Quote 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.

View Quote There's nothing routine about flying to the moon, I can vouch for that.

View Quote [On the night of the Apollo 11 landing] Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, and Neil Armstrong. Ha, ha, ha. Neil Armstrong!

View Quote I am sick and tired of the entire western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!

View Quote RETRO: We have a typhoon warning on the prime edge of the recovery area. Now this is just a warning, Flight, it could miss them.
Gene Kranz: Only if their luck changes.

View Quote If a Flight Surgeon had to okay me for this mission, I'd be grounded.

View Quote Listen to a recording of the original performance of this quote: Houston, we have a problem. Note: ranked #50 in the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 movie quotations in American cinema. In real life, the quote was "Houston, we've had a problem." Apollo Expeditions to the Moon, ch. 13.1, by James A. Lovell. The original phrase pronounced by Jack Swigert, "Houston, we've had a problem here" and then repeated by Lovell, "Houston, we've had a problem", was altered to a present-tense in the film script.