Apollo 13 (I) (1995)

Brett Cullen: CAPCOM 1

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• William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : ...and you, sir, are a steely-eyed missile man.

• William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : When I go up there on 19, I'm gonna take my entire collection of Johnny Cash along!

• William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : Odyssey, this is Houston. We need you to power down immediately. And you're gonna have to power up the LEM at the same time, so you better get somebody over there.

  Jim Lovell : We already have Freddo in the LEM, Houston.

  William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : We've got serious time pressure here, Jim. You've gotta get the guidance program transferred, and you've gotta do it before you're out of power in the command module, or you're not gonna be able to navigate up there.

  Jim Lovell : How much time? Can you give me a number?

  William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : Well, we're looking at less than fifteen minutes of life support in the Odyssey.

  Jim Lovell : [sharing a look with Jack, then joining Fred]  We've got fifteen minutes, Freddo. It's worse than I thought.

• [after a dispute has broken out between Haise and Swigert] 

  Jim Lovell : All right, we're not doing this, gentlemen. We are *not* doing this. We're not going to go bouncing off the walls for ten minutes, 'cause we're just going to end up back here with the same problems! Try to figure out how to stay alive!

  William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : [over communications mic]  Aquarius, this is Houston.

  Jim Lovell : [shouts]  Are we on Vox?

  Fred Haise, Sr. : No, we're not on Vox.

  [Lovell turns on his mic] 

  Jim Lovell : [calmly]  Yeah, Houston, this is Aquarius.

• William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : Aquarius, watch that middle gimbal. We don't want you tumbling off into space.

  Jim Lovell : Freddo, inform Houston I'm well aware of the God-damned gimbals!

  Fred Haise, Sr. : [calmly]  Roger that, Houston.

  Jim Lovell : I don't need to hear the obvious, I've got the frappin' 8-ball right in front of me!

  INCO White : Hey, we're on VOX.

  William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : Aquarius, this is Houston. We've got you both on VOX.

  Fred Haise, Sr. : You want what, you want us to go to VOX?

  William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : You have a hot mic, we're reading everything you say.

  Fred Haise, Sr. : [sheepish]  Sorry, Jim.

  [Fred switches the microphones to push-to-talk] 

• Jim Lovell : Houston, uh, we... we sure could use the re-entry procedure up here. When can we expect that?

  William 'Bill' Pogue, CAPCOM : Uh, that's coming real soon, Aquarius.

  Jim Lovell : Uh, Houston, we... we... we just can't just throw this together at the last minute. So here's what you're gonna do. You're gonna get the procedure up to us, whatever it is, and we're gonna go over it step by step so that there's no foul-ups. I don't have to tell you we're all a little tired up here. The world's getting awfully big in the window.