Apollo 13 Page #8

Let's get this show on the road.

Put him in space, fellas.

Okay, Houston, the quad heater

circuit breakers are open.

Copy that.

We're using the forward omni

when the earth's in the window,

and we're switching to aft omni

when we see the moon.

We copy that, Thirteen.

Aquarius, we don't want you

to make any more waste dumps.

The venting may

push you off course.

- Oh, Christ.

- What's up?

No more waste dumps.

We're just gonna have to store it.

Jack, we're gonna need

some more urine bags.

Okay, Houston, that leaves us

with just the computer,

which I'm shutting down now.

And that's it.

We just put Sir Isaac Newton

in the driver's seat.

Is it A.M. Or P.M.?

A.M. Very, very A.M.

Haise is running a temperature,

and none of them has slept.

I can't order these guys to go to sleep.

Could you sleep up there?

It's gonna get awful cold

in there for those guys.

Gene, we have a situation

brewing with the carbon dioxide.

We got a CO2 filter problem

on the lunar module.

- Five filters on the LEM.

- Meant for 2 guys for a day and a half.

- I told the doc...

- They're already up to 8 on the gauges.

Anything over 15 and you get

impaired judgment, blackouts,

- beginnings of brain asphyxia.

- What about the scrubbers

on the command module?

- They take square cartridges.

- The ones on the LEM are round.

Tell me this isn't

a government operation.

This just isn't a contingency

we've remotely looked at.

Those CO2 levels

are gonna be getting toxic.

I suggest you invent a way to put

a square peg in a round hole rapidly.

Okay, people, listen up.

The people upstairs have handed us

this one, and we gotta come through.

We gotta find a way

to make this...

fit into the hole for this...

using nothing but that.

- Let's get it organized.

- Okay, let's build a filter.

Better get some coffee

going too, someone.

The Haise family

lives in El Lago, Texas.

His wife, Mary,

is from Biloxi, Mississippi.

When Fred Haise

was growing up in Biloxi,

he may have looked

ahead to a fine family,

but he never dreamt of flying.

I'd never flown really

before I went into the service,

and I only went into the flying business

as a means to getting a commission.

- Good morning.

- Henry. Don't you ever sleep?

- I have a request from the news people.

- Uh-huh.

They want to put

a transmitter up on the lawn.

Transmitter?

It's kind of a tower

for a live broadcast.

They didn't care about this mission.

They didn't even run Jim's show.

Well... it's more dramatic now.

Suddenly people are...

Landing on the moon

wasn't dramatic enough for them.

Why should not landing be?

Look, I, um, realize

how hard this is, Marilyn,

but the whole world

is caught up in it.

- It's the biggest story since...

- No, Henry.

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.

When you are sad and Ionely

And have no place to go

Come to see me, baby

and bring along some dough

And we'll go honky tonkin'

Honky tonkin'

Honky tonkin', honey baby

We'll go honky tonkin'

'round this town

Hey, Freddo.

It's too cold in there.

Yeah.

That's a nice one of Mary.

- You don't look too good, Freddo.

- I'll survive.

- There's aspirin in the medical kit.

- I took some.

Jim, I'm all right.

It was an accident,

Mary gettin' pregnant.

You should have seen the look

on my face when she told me.

Well, that has

a tendency to happen.

Yeah.

I wonder if it's

a boy or a girl.

You're gonna find out

soon enough.

Sure.

I never dreamed I'd ever get

to do something like this:

Come up here on a real mission.

Most of the guys

I graduated high school with...

never even left home,

and here I am.

Oh, yeah... here you are.

It hurts when I urinate.

Well, you're not

gettin' enough water.

I'm drinking my ration

the same as you.

I think old Swigert

gave me the clap.

He's been pissin' in my relief tube.

Well... that will be a hot one at

the debriefing for the flight surgeon.

That's another first

for America's space program.

Listen, um... I've been

going... over some stuff,

and I'm a little worried about this cold

affecting our battery efficiency.

We quit heatin' the glycol to save

water and power, so that's not helping.

It could cost us

amp hours on the back end?

- That's a possibility.

- I've been goin' over the numbers again.

Have they called up

with a reentry plan yet?

- We're comin' in too shallow and fast.

- We're workin' on something. Hold on.

I can't remember

the ratio to temperature.

We got no references on board.

Let's see if Houston

can pull up the mill specs.

Listen, listen! They gave us too much

Delta V. They had us burn too long.

At this rate we're gonna skip

right out of the atmosphere,

and we're never gonna get back.

What are you talkin' about?

How'd you figure that?

I can add.

- They've got half the Ph.D. S

on the planet working on this.

- Houston says we're on the money.

What if they made a mistake and

there was no way to reverse it?

Do you think they would tell us?

- There's no reason to tell us.

- What do you mean? That's bullshit!

There's a thousand things

that have to happen in order.

We are on number eight.

You're talking about number 692.

In the meantime, I'm trying to

tell you we're coming in too fast.

I think they know it, and that's why

we don't have a goddamn reentry plan.

That's duly noted.

Thank you, Jack.

Ow!

- Goddamn this piece of sh*t!

- Hey!

- This piece of sh*t's

gonna get you home.

- All right.

That's because that's

the only thing 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 know, do you?

They brought me in to do a job!

They asked me to stir the tanks,

and I stirred the tanks!

- 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 that.

I just asked you what the gauge

was readin', and you don't know!

Look, we're not doing this.

We are 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!

Aquarius, this is Houston.

- Are we on VOX?

- No, we're not on VOX.

Yeah, Houston, this is Aquarius.

Go ahead.

Yeah, Jim, could you check

your CO2 gauge for us?

Yeah, Houston,

we were just looking at that.

Our CO2 measurement has jumped

four notches in the last hour.

That can't be right.

I went over those numbers three times.

Jim, that sounds about right.

We were expecting that.

That's very comforting, Houston.

What do we do about it?

We're working on a procedure

down here for you.

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