Apollo 13 Page #2

She's not even wearing a bra!

You can see everything!

Shut up!

- Everybody. Marilyn, trick or treat.

- Jim.

You know that Easter vacation trip

we had planned for Acapulco?

Uh-oh.

I was thinkin' there might be

a slight change in destination.

Really?

Maybe, say... the moon.

Al Shepard's ear infection

has flared up...

and we've all been bumped up

to the prime crew of Apollo 13.

Straight to the head of the line

and the Fra Mauro highlands.

Six months?

You're moving up six months?

- Dad, can I please wear this?

- Sure.

- Jim.

- No! No. Absolutely not.

- Don't you want somebody to love

- This stinks!

They're not rushing things, are they?

You're gonna be ready

in six months?

We'll be ready. Boy, I wouldn't want

to be around Al Shepard tonight.

I gotta get over there.

We're gonna have to get up to speed.

Go. Go.

I'm gonna walk

on the moon, Marilyn.

I know. I can't believe it.

Naturally, it's 13.

Why 13?

It comes after 12, hon.

Apollo 13, you are go for docking.

All systems are nominal

and on the line.

Okay, S-4B is stable,

slot panels are drifting free.

The drogue is clear.

The docking target is clear.

Okay, I'm comin' up on that now.

Two... one... mark.

Seventy-five feet.

We're comin' up on docking.

Let's shut down some thrusters on 'em.

We'll see what he does.

Whoa. Wait a minute.

I lost something here.

I can't translate up.

Houston, we are drifting

down and away.

- Wanna back off and take another run?

- No, I got it.

Let me just try

and get it stable here.

- I'm gonna reset the high gain.

- Got the target back in the reticle.

We're stable.

Go ahead and recycle the valves.

- Forty feet.

- They're all gray.

Twenty.

- Easy.

- Ten feet.

- Capture.

- That's it!

- That's it.

- Sweet move, Ken. Beautiful.

- Gentlemen, that is the way we do that.

- Man, that woke me up.

Apollo 13 backup crew,

you're up in the simulator.

- Nice job, gentlemen.

- That's three hours of boredom...

followed by seven seconds

of sheer terror.

Good job, guys.

You just won the Christmas turkey.

Nice try, Frank.

You really outfoxed 'em, brother.

Yeah, but it wasn't perfect.

Used up too much fuel.

You're above the curve.

Not by much. Listen, guys,

I wanna work it again.

Hey, we gotta be up with the dawn patrol

headed for Bethpage, what, 0700?

- Wheels up at 0700.

- Yeah, I know...

but my rate of turn

is still a little slow.

I really think

we should work it again.

- Well, let's get it right.

- Okay, set it up again, Frank.

Okay, 13 backup crew.

It'll have to wait.

- Prime crew's up for another run.

- Yeah, baby.

Apollo 13, we show S-4B shutdown...

and all systems are nominal.

Fred, set the S-band omni to B...

and when you get

in the LEM, two forward.

Good shape over here.

Hey, we got a problem.

- Ken, get your helmet on!

- I can't get it locked!

Oh, God!

Jim!

I thought the stars

would fall down on you.

That's silly.

Stars can't fall on us.

You're a smarter kid than I was.

How long will it take

to get to the moon?

Four days.

But that's pretty fast.

See, this is

the Saturn 4B booster...

and it shoots us

away from the Earth...

as fast as a bullet from a gun...

until the moon's gravity

actually grabs us and pulls us...

into a circle around the moon...

which is called an orbit.

All right?

Fred and I float down the tunnel

into the lunar module...

this spidery-Iookin' guy.

Only holds two people,

and it's just for landin' on the moon.

And I take the controls

and I steer it around...

and I fly it down...

adjustin' it here,

the attitude there, pitch, roll...

for a nice, soft landing

on the moon.

Better than Neil Armstrong.

Way better than Pete Conrad.

Dad... did you know

the astronauts in the fire?

Yeah. Yeah, I did. I knew the

astronauts in the fire. All of 'em.

Could that happen again?

Well, I'll tell ya

somethin' about that fire.

Um, a lot of things went wrong.

The, uh... The door.

It's called the hatch. They couldn't

get it open when they needed to get out.

That was one thing. And, uh...

Well, a lot of things

went wrong in that fire.

Did they fix it?

Oh, yes. Absolutely.

We fixed it.

It's not a problem anymore.

I can't believe they still

have you doing public appearances.

Well, Henry Hurt was... all over me.

I know. But with a training

schedule this tight...

Well, it's... It's the program, Marilyn.

You know, it's NASA.

Hey! Hey, you're

Jim Lovell, aren't ya?

Hey! Lucky 13!

Right on!

That's the second time

it's done that.

I was looking at the kids'

school schedule coming up.

Yeah?

- It's a very busy week.

- Yeah.

I'm thinking about

not going to the launch.

Huh.

The kids need me at home, honey.

Marilyn, we've had

these kids for awhile now.

They've never kept you from

comin' to the other launches.

But now we have your mother.

She's just had this stroke.

Mom's fine.

It's not like I've

never been to a launch.

The other wives

have not done three.

I just don't think

I can go through all that.

I'll just be glad

when this one's over.

Well, you're gonna miss

a hell of a show.

- Jim.

- Hey, guys. See ya in a few weeks.

Take care.

Bring us back a moon rock.

So the number 13

doesn't bother you.

Only if it's a Friday, Phil.

Apollo 13, lifting off

at 1300 hours and 13 minutes...

and entering the moon's

gravity on April 13?

Uh, Ken Mattingly here has been

doing some scientific experiments...

regarding that very phenomenon,

haven't you?

Uh, yes. Well, I had a black cat,

uh, walk over a broken mirror...

under the lunar module ladder.

It didn't seem to be a problem.

We're considering a letter

we got from a fella...

who said we oughta take

a pig with us for good luck.

Does it bother you that the public

regards this flight as routine?

There's nothing routine about flying

to the moon. I can vouch for that.

And, uh, I think that

an astronaut's last mission...

his final flight... that's always

going to be very special.

Why is this your last, Jim?

I'm in command

of the best ship...

with the best crew

that anybody could ask for...

and I'll be walking in a place

where there's 400 degrees difference...

between sunlight and shadow.

I can't imagine, uh,

ever topping that.

We have that scheduled

for 0900 hours tomorrow.

- That's not gonna work, Walter.

- Why?

Freddo and I are gonna be goin' over the

lunar surface experiments tomorrow...

and Ken's gonna be

back in the simulator.

We're gonna be goin' over

the flight plan tonight.

Gonna pay a visit to this machine

after you're hard down. Thanks.

Jim, we've got a problem.

We just got some blood work back from

the lab. Charlie Duke has the measles.

So we need a new backup.

- You've all been exposed to it.

- Oh, I've had the measles.

Ken Mattingly hasn't.

You wanna break up my crew

two days before the launch...

when we can predict each other's moves,

read the tone of each other's voices?

Ken Mattingly will be

getting seriously ill...

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