Apollo 13 (I) (1995)

Clint Howard: Sy Liebergot - EECOM White

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• [US income tax returns are due in 2 days, but Swigert is 200,000 miles away] 

  Jack Swigert : Uh, well, if anyone from the, uh, from the IRS is watching, I... forgot to file my, my, my 1040 return. Um, I meant to do it today, but, uh...

  Sy Liebergot : [back at Mission Control]  That's no joke. They'll jump on him!

• Sy Liebergot : Flight... I recommend we shut down reactant valves to the fuel cells.

  Gene Kranz : What the hell good is that gonna do?

  Sy Liebergot : If that's where the leak is, we can isolate it. We can save what's left in the tanks and we can run on the good cell.

  Gene Kranz : You close 'em, you can't open 'em again! You can't land on the moon with one healthy fuel cell!

  Sy Liebergot : Gene, the Odyssey is *dying*. From my chair here, this is the last option.

• Gene Kranz : EECOM, is this an instrumentation problem, or are we looking at real power loss here?

  Sy Liebergot : It's, it's reading a quadruple failure - that can't happen! It's, it's got to be instrumentation.

• Gene Kranz : Let's look at this thing from a... um, from a standpoint of status. What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?

  [pause] 

  Sy Liebergot : I'll get back to you, Gene.