Dick Cavett [talking about Jack Swigert]: He's the kind of guy they say has a girl in every port, he has that reputation. I think he may be kind of foolishly optimistic though, taking nylons and Hershey bars to the moon ...
Jim Lovell
Tom Hanks · 37 quotes
Gene Kranz
Ed Harris · 24 quotes
Jack Swigert
Kevin Bacon · 17 quotes
Marilyn Lovell
Kathleen Quinlan · 13 quotes
Ken Mattingly
Gary Sinise · 10 quotes
Fred Haise
Bill Paxton · 8 quotes
CAPCOM
6 quotes
John Aaron
4 quotes
Sy Liebergot
4 quotes
Henry Hurt
Xander Berkeley · 3 quotes
John Young
Ben Marley · 3 quotes
Most scenes together: Jim Lovell & Jack Swigert (8), Jim Lovell & Fred Haise (6), Jack Swigert & CAPCOM (6)
Apollo 13 quotes
Page 1 of 7We're not gonna have power much longer. The ship's bleeding to death.
William 'Bill' Pogue
When I go up there on 19, I'm gonna take my entire collection of Johnny Cash along!
Blanche Lovell
Are you scared?
Susan Lovell
[nods]
Blanche Lovell
Don't you worry, honey. If they could get a washing machine to fly, my Jimmy could land it.
Aquarius, this is Houston.
Houston, Aquarius.
Uh, Jim, we've got another course correction for you.
What's up?
Something about another course correction.
Uh, We copy, uh, Houston. Be advised, it's gonna take Freddo and I awhile to power up the computer for the, uh, alignment platform if we have to fire the engine.
Uh, negative on that, Jim. We can't spare power for the computer.
We gotta do this blind?
Houston, without the computer, what do we use for orientation?
Come on, we gotta be able to give these guys something up there.
Bill Fenner
Without power, we can't give them a reading.
I'm not talking about power, I'm talking about reference.
Bill Strable
No, no. There's no references. We have a bunch of debris up there...
Houston, what's the story with this burn?
We're trying to hash something out down here, Aquarius. Stand by.
Well, now look, Houston, all we need to hold attitude is one fixed point in space. Is that not correct?
Yeah, roger that, Jim.
Well, Houston, we've got one. If we can keep the Earth in the window, flying manually, the co-ax crosshairs right on its terminator, all I have to know is how long do we need to burn the engine. [under his breath] The shorter the better.
Roger that, Jim.
Glynn Lunney Can they fly it manually? And still shut it down on time without the computer?
I guess that's the best we can do, Glynn. We're out of time.
Jack, you'll be glad to hear that we've contacted President Nixon, and he's going to grant you an extension on your income taxes, since you are most decidedly out of the country.
Jack, you'll be happy to hear that we contacted President Nixon, and he's gonna grant you an extension on your income taxes, since you are... most decidedly out of the country.
Roger that, Houston. That's wonderful news.
Dr. Chuck Tell them they have to sleep. Haise is running a fever of 104.
Uh, Thirteen. Listen, we've had another request from the Flight Surgeon that you fellas get some more sleep. He doesn't like his readings down here.
[rips off his bio-med sensors]
Let's see how he feels about this. I'm sick and tired of the entire Western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!
Dr. Chuck [Lovell's readings flatline]
Flight, I just lost Lovell.
Uh, Thirteen. This is Houston. Jim, we just had a drop out on your bio-med sensors.
I'm not wearing my bio-med sensors, Houston.
[Kranz smirks and silently laughs to himself. CAPCOM glances at Kranz, who waves him off, unconcerned]
...Okay, Jim. Copy that.
Dr. Chuck [Lovell looks over at Haise and Swigert, who proceed in turn to remove their bio-med sensors as well]
Flight! Now I'm losing all three of them!
It's just a little medical mutiny, Doc. I'm sure the guys are still with us. Let's cut 'em some slack, okay?
Chris Kraft
He specifically wanted a quote from a flight director.
Who wanted a quote?
Glynn Lunney The President.
The President?
Deke Slayton Nixon. He wants odds.
We are not losing the crew.
Chris Kraft
Gene, I gotta give him odds. Five to one against? Three to one?
Glynn Lunney I don't think they're that good.
We are not losing those men!
Chris Kraft
This could be the worst disaster NASA's ever faced.
With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.
Controller #1
Is it A.M. or P.M.?
Controller #2
A.M. Very, very A.M.
It hurts when I urinate.
Well, you're not getting enough water.
No, I'm drinkin' my rations, same as you... I think old Swigert gave me the clap. Been pissin' in my relief tube.
Well, that'd be a hot one at the debriefing for the flight surgeons... Another first for America's space program.
EECOM, is this an instrumentation problem, or are we looking at real power loss here?
It's, it's reading a quadruple failure - that can't happen! It's, it's got to be instrumentation.
Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?
I'll get back to you, Gene.
Okay, people! Listen up! I want you all to forget the flight plan. From this moment on, we are improvising a new mission. [Kranz turns on an overheard projector and the bulb burns out] How do we get our people home? [drawing with chalk on blackboard] They are here. We turn them around? Straight back? Direct abort?
Bobby Spencer
Yes! Gene...
MOCR Engineer
No, we can't do that...
Jerry Bostick
No, sir. No, sir! We get them on a free–return trajectory. It's the option with the fewest question marks for safety.
I agree with Jerry. We use the moon's gravity to slingshot them around.
Bobby Spencer
No! The L.E.M. will not support three guys for that amount of time!
Larry Strimple
It barely holds two.
Bobby Spencer
I mean, we have got to do a direct abort. We do an about-face, we bring the guys right home, right now.
Larry Strimple
Get them back soon, absolutely.
Jerry Bostick
We don't even know if the Odyssey's engine's even working, and if there's been serious damage to this spacecraft...
Ray Teague
They blow up and they die.
Bobby Spencer
That is not the argument! We are talking about time, not–!
Ray Teague
Oh, come on! I'm not going to sugarcoat this for you!
Let's hold it. Let's hold it down. Let's hold it down, people. The only engine we've got with enough power for a direct abort is the S.P.S. on the service module. From what Lovell has told us, it could have been damaged in an explosion, so let's consider that engine dead. We light that thing up; it could blow the whole works. It's just too risky. We're not gonna take that chance. Now the only thing the command module is good for is re-entry, so that leaves us with the L.E.M., which means free–return trajectory. Once we get the guys around the moon, we'll fire up the L.E.M. engine, make a long burn, pick up some speed, get them back as soon as we can.
Alan Glines
Gene, I'm wondering what the Grumman guys think about this.
Grumman Rep
We can't make any guarantees. We designed the L.E.M. to land on the moon, not fire the engine out there for course correction.
Well, unfortunately we're not landing on the moon, are we? I don't care what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do. So let's get to work, let's lay it out, okay?
I, uh, I have a request from the news people.
Uh-huh?
They're out front here. They want to put a transmitter up on the lawn.
Transmitter?
Kind of a tower, for live broadcast.
I thought they didn't care about this mission. They didn't even run Jim's show.
Well, it's more dramatic now. Suddenly people are...
Landing on the moon wasn't dramatic enough for them - why should not landing on it be?
Look, I, um, I realize how hard this is, Marilyn, but the whole world is caught up in this, it's historic-...
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!