Apollo 13 Page #9
- Do you copy?
- Oh, Christ.
All right, Houston, we're
standing by for those procedures.
Christ, I know why
my numbers are wrong.
I only figured it
for two people.
Maybe I should just
hold my breath.
The deadly CO2 gas is poisoning the
astronauts with every breath in and out.
Heads up. Heads up.
- Oh! Go, go, go, go!
- Someone get that. Damn.
Heads up, people.
Look out now.
- What's this?
- That's what they gotta make.
- I hope you got the procedures for me.
- Right here.
That's it?
All right, Aquarius, this is Houston.
Do you have a flight plan?
Affirmative, Andy.
Jack's got one right here.
Okay, we have an unusual
procedure for you here.
We need you
to rip the cover off.
He wants you to rip the cover
off the flight plan.
With pleasure.
The other materials
you're gonna need here are...
- a lithium hydroxide canister...
- Two, two.
Two lithium hydroxide canisters.
I'm sorry.
- A roll of gray tape.
- Duct tape.
Duct tape. You need an L.C.G. Bag...
Two L.C.G. Bags.
The red suit hoses,
and you've got the flight plan cover.
- Can you give me a timetable?
- Henry! Henry!
of carbon dioxide?
It's, uh, climbing.
You're saying that they're
almost out of breathable air?
Wait a second. That's not what he said.
He said we're working on it.
You want to cut
the duct tape three feet long.
- Tell him to use his arm.
- Just use your arm.
- It's a good arm length.
- I see what you're getting at. Hold on.
Jack, tear that piece of tape
down the middle lengthwise.
- All right?
- Hold on, Houston.
While the astronauts appear to have
enough oxygen to keep them alive,
one thing they have too much of
is carbon dioxide.
With each breath,
the three men expel...
more of the poisonous gas
into the lunar module cockpit,
and the scrubbers intended to
keep the atmosphere breathable...
are quickly becoming saturated.
Oh, sh*t. I tore it.
Sh*t!
Houston, what do we do if we
ripped the bag? Can we tape it?
- They just tore the bag.
- Oh, no.
Uh, stand by.
What should I tell 'em to do?
They should have one more.
But they've still got
a long way to come.
They are now working on their backup
facilities, their emergency facilities.
The problem is, if anything more
goes wrong, they're in real trouble.
As most of you are aware, there is
no rescue possible in space flight.
A-Any rescue system the space agency
has long since calculated...
Hold this a minute.
Since any rescue system
the space agency calculated...
- One sock.
- Once you have the sock in place,
- we're gonna want you to bungee...
- Work it in.
to the bulkhead,
- right above the LEM canister.
So how does this flight compare to other
emergency situations you've faced?
I'd have to say that this is
the most serious situation...
we've ever encountered
in manned space flight.
- Houston, filter's in place.
Suit circuit relief to close.
- CO2 canister select to secondary.
- All right.
Here goes.
I can hear air moving.
Just breathe normal, fellas.
Aquarius, please advise on CO2 status.
Yeah, Houston, we're taking
a look at those numbers now.
We're still holding
close to 15, Houston.
Roger that. Standing by.
Houston, the CO2 level
has dropped to nine...
and it is still falling.
- Yes!
- Great. Good job, you guys.
That is good to hear, Aquarius.
And you, sir,
are a steely-eyed missile man.
Okay, spacecraft control to computer.
Damn!
Damn.
We overloaded.
We used way too much power.
There must be a sneak circuit
between step seven and ten.
- Which one has the leak?
- Don't know that yet, John.
The sequence was wrong. We just have to
go back and try 'em one at a time.
You need a break, Ken?
If they don't get one,
I don't get one.
Well, if it won't work,
get me another one.
- My son's supposed to be on.
- I know, Mrs. Lovell.
- Hi, Blanch.
- They can't fix a thing in this place.
Blanch, it's Marilyn.
Hi, Grandma.
- I was gonna see Jimmy.
- I know. I know.
We came to tell you something.
There's been an accident.
Jimmy's okay. He's all right.
But he's not gonna get
to walk on the moon.
Well, they said he was.
I know. I know.
Um... that was before.
Now there's been an explosion,
and they're all okay.
They're all right.
But now they're just going to...
try to figure out
a way to get them home.
And...
And it's a little bit dangerous.
Oh, sweetie.
Are you scared?
Well, don't you worry, honey.
If they could get
a washing machine to fly,
You saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart
Without a love of my own
Jack, you'll be happy to hear
we contacted President Nixon,
an extension on your income taxes...
since you are most decidedly
out of the country.
Roger that, Houston.
That's wonderful news.
Tell them they have to sleep.
Haise is running a fever of 104.
Thirteen, we've had another
request from the flight surgeon...
that you fellas get more sleep.
He doesn't like
his readings down here.
Let's see how
I am sick and tired
of the entire western world...
knowing how my kidneys
are functioning!
Flight, I just lost Lovell!
Uh, Thirteen, this is Houston.
Jim, we just had a dropout
on your bio-med sensors.
I'm not wearing
my bio-med sensors, Houston.
Okay, Jim. Copy that.
Now I'm losing all three of 'em!
It's just a little
medical mutiny, Doc.
I'm sure the guys
are still with us.
Let's cut 'em
some slack, okay?
It's not the velocity,
it's the angle.
Maybe they're still venting something
that's throwing off the trajectory,
but we are definitely
shallowing again.
- We are up to a 5.9.
- Damn it.
At this rate, they nick the earth's
atmosphere and bounce off into space.
- We need another burn
to get them back in the corridor.
- Definitely another burn.
- Another burn. Copy that.
- Fire the engines and get 'em on course.
Aquarius, this is Houston.
Houston, Aquarius.
Jim, we've got another
course correction for you.
What's up?
Something about another
course correction.
Uh, we copy, Houston.
Be advised it's gonna take Freddo and I
a while to power up the computer...
for the alignment platform
if we have to fire the engine.
Negative on that, Jim.
We can't spare power
for the computer.
We gotta do this blind?
Without the computer,
what do we use for orientation?
We've got to be able
to give these guys something.
Without the power,
we can't give them a reading.
No, there's no references.
We have debris up there.
Houston, what's the story
with this burn?
We're trying to hash something out
down here, Aquarius.
Stand by.
Look, Houston. All we need to hold
attitude is one fixed point in space.
- Is that not correct?
- Yeah. Roger that, Jim.
Well, Houston, we've got one.
If we can keep the Earth
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