Apollo 13 quotes
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Jim Lovell
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[Ken Mattingly is in the simulator trying to figure out Apollo 13's reentry procedure]
Technician: Need a break, Ken?
Ken Mattingly: If they don't get one, I don't get one.
Ken Mattingly: If they don't get one, I don't get one.
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[looking at the fogged-up instrument panels] It's like tryin' to drive a toaster through a car wash.
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Give Me A Go-No-Go For Launch
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Don't give me that NASA bullshit! I want to know what's happening with my husband!
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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.
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I'm gonna give these guys a beautiful ride.
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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.
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.
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Gentlemen, it's been a privilege flying with you.
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[After everyone applauds his new Apollo 13 vest] Save it for splashdown, guys.
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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.
Fred Haise, Sr.: 80 degrees.
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Gentlemen, what are your intentions? I'd like to go home.
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[On the night of the Apollo 11 landing] Christopher Columbus, Charles Lindbergh, and Neil Armstrong. Ha, ha, ha. Neil Armstrong!
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I am sick and tired of the entire western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!
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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.
Gene Kranz: Only if their luck changes.