Apollo 13 quotes

65 total quotes

Gene Kranz
Jack Swigert
Jim Lovell
Marilyn Lovell
Multiple Characters

View Quote I am sick and tired of the entire western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!

View Quote If a Flight Surgeon had to okay me for this mission, I'd be grounded.

View Quote I don't care about what anything was DESIGNED to do, I care about what it CAN do.

View Quote We just lost the moon.

View Quote Let's work the problem people. Let's not make things worse by guessing.

View Quote Marilyn Lovell: Blanche, Blanche, these nice young men are going to watch the television with you. This is Neil Armstrong, and this is Buzz... Aldrin.
Neil Armstrong: Hi.
Blanche Lovell: Are you boys in the space program too?

View Quote (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.

View Quote Senator: How do you go to the bathroom in space?
Jim Lovell: Well, um... I tell you it's a highly technical procedure of cranking down the window and looking for a gas station.

View Quote Lunar module has just become a lifeboat.

View Quote I can't deal with cleaning up. Let's sell the house.

View Quote Technician: How much power do we have to work with?
John Aaron: Barely enough to run a coffee pot for nine hours.

View Quote [as they pass over the lunar surface]
Fred Haise, Sr.: Mare Tranquilitatis - Neil and Buzz's old neighborhood. Coming up on Mount Marilyn. Jim, you've got to take a look at this.
Jim Lovell: I've seen it.

View Quote Jim Lovell: Freddo, how long does it take to power up the LEM?
Fred Haise, Sr.: Three hours by the checklist.
Jim Lovell: We don't have that much time.

View Quote [As everyone is madly trying to identify the problem from instrument readings]
Jim Lovell: 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.
[pause]
Jim Lovell: It's got to be the oxygen.

View Quote So long, Earth. Catch you on the flip side.