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!

What about their level

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.

The entire filter assembly

to the bulkhead,

- right above the LEM canister.

- We're getting close to 15.

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.

- Cabin gas return to egress.

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,

my Jimmy could land it.

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,

and he's gonna grant you

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

he feels about this.

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.

I'm not talking about power,

I'm talking about reference.

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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