Apollo 13 Page #4

Mom, that was loud.

Here, hold my hand.

I can't believe

you did this four times.

The worst part's over.

It is?

Listen, this doesn't stop for me

until he lands on that aircraft carrier.

Well, you just look

so calm about it.

If the flight surgeon had to okay me

for this mission, I'd be grounded.

Mrs. Lovell! Mrs. Haise!

Can we speak to you?

Can we just have

a word with you?

Remember, you're proud,

happy and thrilled.

Mrs. Lovell!

- How're ya feeling?

- Well, very proud...

and very happy,

and we're thrilled.

Flight, Booster.

I show S-4B shutdown.

T.L.I. Is on the money.

Looks good, Flight.

Roger, FIDO.

Okay, guys.

We're goin' to the moon.

Flight, we have reacquisition

of signal at Hawaii.

Flight, everything looks good.

Okay, Houston. C.M.P. Here.

I've exchanged couches with Jim.

I'm in the pilot's seat.

I'm gonna go ahead and get set

for transposition and docking.

Roger that, Jack.

Freddo, you okay?

Okay, let's get turned around

and pick up the lunar module.

Odyssey, you're go

for pyro arm and docking,

and we recommend you secure

cabin pressurization.

Roger that.

Okay, we're ready

for C.S.M. Separation.

Okay, S.M.R.C.S.

Isol valves are all gray.

Okay, Swigert,

command module pilot...

she's all yours.

Houston, we've got

a good separation.

- The S-4B is stable.

- Translation looks good.

- We confirm that, Thirteen.

- We're gonna start to pitch around...

to line up with the LEM.

You know, Freddo, Frank Borman...

was upchuckin' most of the way

to the moon on Apollo 8.

I'm all right. I just ate too much

breakfast. Let's go to work.

And pitching up.

Pitch rate,

Roger, Jack.

We see you pitching around.

Keep an eye on that telemetry.

Roger that. If Swigert can't dock

this thing, we don't have a mission.

- How's the alignment?

- G.D.C. Align.

Thrusting forward.

One hundred feet.

Watch the alignment, now.

Ah, don't worry, guys.

I'm on top of it.

- FIDO, let me know when you're ready.

- Okay, let's uplink that.

- How we lookin'?

- We're not there yet. Forty feet.

Twenty.

Come on, rookie,

park that thing.

Ten feet.

- Capture.

- That's it.

- Talk back is barber pole.

- Go ahead and retract.

Houston, we have hard dock.

Roger, understand.

That's a good deal, Jack.

Let's start back up with procedure 17.

Okay, Houston, we have LEM extraction.

We copy that, Thirteen.

Now you're off

to the Fra Mauro highlands.

- I gotta get out of this suit.

- Houston, we are ready...

for the beginning

of the P.T. C...

and I think once we're in that

barbecue roll, uh, Jack and I will eat.

- Hey, I'm hungry.

- Are you sure?

I could eat the ass

out of a dead rhinoceros.

- We got a smooth one, huh?

- By the numbers so far.

We just ran a minimum load test on the

cooling system. Let me clean this up.

- See you tomorrow.

- Take care.

It's too bad we can't

demonstrate this on TV.

What a shame.

Okay. Overboard dump comin' up.

Here it comes...

the constellation Urion.

Now, that's a beautiful sight.

Barbara. Barbara, we are going

to your father's broadcast.

No! I'm never coming out!

I hate Paul! No one else

can ever play their records again!

She's still going on about

the stupid Beatles breaking up?

- They're not stupid! You're stupid!

- Barbara!

I know you're in mourning.

I'm not going, Mom!

Dad won't know if we're there!

The whole world is going to be watching

this broadcast, and so are we.

Excuse me while I...

Okay, uh, good evening, America...

and welcome aboard Apollo 13.

I'm Jim Lovell, and we're

broadcasting to you tonight...

from an altitude of almost

away from the face

of the earth...

and we have a pretty good show

in store for you tonight.

We are going

to show you just what...

- Susan. Barbara.

- Our life is like for the three of us...

- in the vast expanse of outer space.

- Double!

One of the first things

we'd like to do...

is provide you with the

appropriate background music.

So, uh, hit it there, Freddo.

Hello, world!

That, uh, was supposed

to be the theme to 2001...

in honor of

our command module Odyssey...

but there seems to have been

a change in the program.

When I go up on 19, I'm gonna take my

entire collection of Johnny Cash along.

- Hey, Marilyn.

- Where's their broadcast?

All the networks dumped us.

One of them said we made

goin' to the moon...

as exciting as a trip to Pittsburgh.

My son's supposed to be on.

He's in outer space.

This is all the channels

we get, Mrs. Lovell.

It's that damn TV Guide again.

Ruthless porters.

Savage baggage masters...

When I was just a lad of ten

My father said to me

- Come here and take...

- Do they know they're not on the air?

We'll tell them

when they get back.

Don't put your faith

in love, my boy

My father said to me

Uh, well, if anyone from the,

uh, I.R.S. Is watching...

I forgot to file my 1040 return.

I meant to do it today, but, uh...

That's no joke.

They'll jump on him.

Well, folks, let's head on down

to the lunar excursion module.

Follow me.

Now, when we get ready

to land on the moon...

Fred Haise and I will float

through this access tunnel...

into the lunar module, leaving...

EECOM, that stir's gonna be...

on both H2 and both O2 tanks,

is that correct?

...the spacecraft

will remain connected.

Well, folks, as you can

probably tell...

the Aquarius isn't much bigger

than a couple of telephone booths.

The skin of the LEM

in some places...

is only as...

as thick as a couple of layers...

of tinfoil, and that's all that

protects us from the vacuum of space.

We get away with this because the LEM is

designed only for flight in outer space.

Fred Haise, Renaissance man.

Okay, we'll head back up the tunnel now

and back into the Odyssey.

When you and your baby

have a fallin' out

All right, we've returned to the...

Stand by one, Houston.

Gotcha!

Houston, that bang you heard was

Fred Haise on the cabin repress valve.

He gets our hearts goin'

every time with that one.

We'll go honky tonkin'

'round this town

Okay, we're, uh, about

to close out the Aquarius...

and, uh, return to the Odyssey.

Our next broadcast will be from

Fra Mauro on the surface of the moon.

So, uh, this is the crew

of the Apollo 13...

wishing everyone

back on Earth a...

a pleasant evening.

All right.

Daddy was funny.

They might air a few minutes

of it on the news tonight.

You'd think so.

- Bye.

- Bye.

Well, between Jack's back taxes

and the Fred Haise Show...

I'd say that was a pretty

successful broadcast.

- That was an excellent show.

- Thank you very much, Houston.

We've got a couple of

housekeeping procedures.

We'd like you to roll right

to 0-6-0 and null your rates.

Roger that.

Rolling right, 0-6-0.

And then if you could give

your oxygen tanks a stir.

Roger that.

Hey, we've got a problem here.

- What did you do?

- Nothing. I stirred the tanks.

- Whoa!

- Hey!

Uh, this is Houston.

Say again please.

Houston, we have a problem.

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