Technician How much power do we have to work with?
Barely enough to run a coffee pot for nine hours.
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 4 of 7 Technician
Television Reporter
Is there a specific instance in an airplane emergency when you can recall fear?
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.
[As everyone is madly trying to identify the problem from instrument readings]
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.
[as they pass over the lunar surface]
Mare Tranquilitatis - Neil and Buzz's old neighborhood. Coming up on Mount Marilyn. Jim, you've got to take a look at this.
I've seen it.
Hey! This piece of shit's gonna get you home. That's cause that's all we got left, Jack!
What are you saying, Fred?
I think you know what I'm saying.
Now wait a minute. All I did was stir those tanks.
What was that gauge reading before you hit the switch?
Don't tell me how to fly the damn C.M. --
You don't even know, do you!?
-- they brought me in here to do a job, they asked me to stir the damn tanks and I stirred the tanks!
Jack, stop kicking yourself in the ass.
This is NOT MY FAULT!
No one is saying it is. If I'm in the left-hand seat when the call comes up, I stir the tanks.
Yeah, well, tell HIM [Haise] that.
I just asked you what the gauge was reading. And YOU DON'T KNOW!
All right gentlemen, we're not gonna do this. We're not gonna go bouncing off the walls for ten minutes, because we're just gonna end up right back here with the same problems! Try to figure out how to stay alive!
Barbara Lovell
[Jim's daughter wants to go trick-or-treating as a hippie]
Dad, can I please wear this?
Sure.
Jim!
No! No, absolutely not.
[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.
I'll bet you do.
[The crew has been "killed" in a simulator accident]
Well, if I had a dollar for every time they killed me in this thing, I wouldn't have to work for you, Deke. We have two days, and we'll be ready.
[The Lovell and Haise families are at Mission Control to watch the crew's live TV broadcast, but none of the TV networks are broadcasting it]
Hi, Marilyn.
Where's the broadcast?
All the networks dumped us. One of them said we've made going to the moon about as exciting as taking a trip to Pittsburgh.
(About the TV networks)
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.
We came in too steep. We're dead.
[after finding out he's being grounded by exposure to the measles]
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!
[Apollo 13's center engine cuts out right after liftoff]
Looks like we just had our glitch for this mission.
[explaining why he put a "NO" sign on the instrument panel]
I was getting a little punchy and I didn't want to cut the LEM loose with you guys still in it.