Technician
How much power do we have to work with?
John Aaron
Barely enough to run a coffee pot for nine hours.
Tied for 8th most-quoted character in Apollo 13 (1995): in 4 of its 94 quotes
Most scenes with: Ken Mattingly (3), John Young (2)
Scenes with John Aaron
4 scenes
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.
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?
Uh, John's brought me up speed. What do we have left in the batteries?
John Aaron
We don't really know.
We gotta get started on some short cuts for the power-up.
John Aaron
Yeah. You know how short?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Let's get this show on the road. Put him in space, fellas.
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.
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.
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.
They're gonna need all these systems, John.
John Aaron
We do not have the power, Ken! We just don't have it.
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.
Look, I know this sequence works, John.
John Aaron
The sequence looks good, we're just overbudget on the amperage.
By how much?
John Aaron
Three or four amps?
Goddammit, John! Is is three or four?
Four.
John Aaron
Four!
Four more amps... [thinking] We know they have some power left in the L.E.M. batteries, right?
John Aaron
Yeah.
We have an umbilical that provides power from the command module to the L.E.M.
Right, it's back-up for the L.E.M. power supply.
John Aaron
I'm listening.
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?
You're gonna lose a lot in the transfer, Ken.
Yeah, yeah. But all we're talking about here is four amps.
