Ken Mattingly
Look, I don't have the measles. I'm not gonna get the measles.
Played by Gary Sinise 
Apollo 13 (1995) · 94 quotes
Apollo 13 (1995) · 94 quotes
Medical guys. I had a feeling once they started doing all the blood tests... I know it's their ass if I get sick up there, but I mean, Jesus!
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Technician
[Ken Mattingly is in the simulator trying to figure out Apollo 13's reentry procedure]
Need a break, Ken?
Ken Mattingly
If they don't get one, I don't get one.
Reporter
So the number 13 doesn't bother you?
Fred Haise
Only if it's a Friday.
Reporter
Apollo 13, lifting off at 13:13, and entering the moon's gravity 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, didn't seem to be a problem.
Jack Swigert
[Swigert has just successfully powered up the Command Module]
Uplink completed. We got her back up, Ken. Boy, I wish you were here to see it.
Ken Mattingly
I'll bet you do.
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.
[glares pointedly at the flight surgeon]
John Young
[enters Ken Mattingly's hotel room]
Ken? Ken.
Ken Mattingly
What? Huh?
John Young
Good, you're not dead. I've been trying to get in touch with you for 45 minutes.
Ken Mattingly
Jesus, John. What're you doing here?
John Young
I gotta get you in the simulators. We got a ship to land.
Ken Mattingly
What?
John Young
There's been an explosion. Oxygen tanks are gone, two fuel cells gone, command module's shut down.
Ken Mattingly
What about the crew?
John Young
Crew's fine so far, trying to keep 'em alive in the L.E.M. We're gonna have to shut that down pretty soon too. We got a lot of people working on numbers on this one, Ken, and nobody's too sure how much power we're gonna have when we hit re-entry. The command module's gonna be frozen up pretty good by then.
John Aaron
You see this ammeter rise over twenty at any point, power-up is no good. We see it spike, that's sayonara for the guidance computer, our guys can't re-enter, okay?
Sim Tech
How much power do we have to play with?
John Aaron
Barely enough to run this coffeepot for 9 hours.
Sim Tech 2
[over headset]
John?
John Aaron
Go.
Sim Tech 2
Yeah, Ken Mattingly just got here.
John Aaron
Copy. He's here.
John Young
They've been losing heat since the accident. They're gonna start getting a lot of water condensation on the control panels.
John Aaron
Ken. Glad you're here. You know what's going on?
Ken Mattingly
Uh, John's brought me up speed. What do we have left in the batteries?
John Aaron
We don't really know.
Ken Mattingly
We gotta get started on some short cuts for the power-up.
John Aaron
Yeah. You know how short?
Ken Mattingly
Well, it's all in the sequencing, John. If we can skip whatever we don't absolutely need, and turn things on in the right order, maybe...
John Aaron
I agree.
Ken Mattingly
You started on a procedure?
John Aaron
Well, the engineers have tried but, I mean, it's your ship, we gotta get you in there.
Ken Mattingly
Okay. Frank. I need the sim cold and dark. Give me the exact same conditions they've got in there now and I need the present status of every instrument.
Frank
You got it.
Ken Mattingly
I need a flashlight. [Frank hands him a regular flashlight] That's not what they have up there. Don't give me anything they don't have onboard.
John Young
Let's get this show on the road. Put him in space, fellas.
Ken Mattingly
Here's the order of what I want to do: I want to power up guidance, ECS, communications, warm up the pyros for the parachute and the command module thrusters.
John Aaron
The thrusters are gonna put you overbudget on amps, Ken.
Ken Mattingly
Well, they've been sitting at 200 hundred below for four days, John. They gotta be heated.
John Aaron
Fine, then trade off the parachutes. Something.
Ken Mattingly
Well, if the chutes don't open, what's the point?
John Aaron
Ken, you're telling me what you need; I'm telling you what we have to work with at this point. I'm not making this stuff up.
Ken Mattingly
They're gonna need all these systems, John.
John Aaron
We do not have the power, Ken! We just don't have it.
Ken Mattingly
Okay, I'm gonna go back and reorganize the sequencing again and find more power. Let's start from scratch. Clear the board.
John Aaron
[turns to John Young]
I don't know where the hell we're gonna find it.
Ken Mattingly
Look, I know this sequence works, John.
John Aaron
The sequence looks good, we're just overbudget on the amperage.
Ken Mattingly
By how much?
John Aaron
Three or four amps?
Ken Mattingly
Goddammit, John! Is is three or four?
John Young
Four.
John Aaron
Four!
Ken Mattingly
Four more amps... [thinking] We know they have some power left in the L.E.M. batteries, right?
John Aaron
Yeah.
Ken Mattingly
We have an umbilical that provides power from the command module to the L.E.M.
John Young
Right, it's back-up for the L.E.M. power supply.
John Aaron
I'm listening.
Ken Mattingly
So... reverse it. Reverse the flow and see if we can draw these four amps from the L.E.M. batteries before we cut it loose. Why can't we do that?
John Aaron
We don't have a procedure for that, do we?
John Young
You're gonna lose a lot in the transfer, Ken.
Ken Mattingly
Yeah, yeah. But all we're talking about here is four amps.
