Apollo 13 (I) (1995)

Ned Vaughn: CAPCOM 2

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• CAPCOM 2 : 13, we just got another request from the Flight Surgeon for you to get some sleep. Don't like these readings down here.

  Jim Lovell : [Tearing off his biomeds]  Let's see how he likes this. I am sick and tired of the entire western world knowing how my kidneys are functioning!

  Dr. Chuck : [after Lovell's heartrate flatlines]  Flight, we just lost Lovell!

  CAPCOM 2 : 13, Houston. Jim, we just had a bottoming out on your biomeds.

  Jim Lovell : I'm not wearing my biomeds.

  CAPCOM 2 : [after Gene Kranz shrugs it off]  Ok, Jim. Copy that.

  [Jack and Fred now tear away their own biomeds] 

  Dr. Chuck : [after all three crew members flatline]  Flight, now I lost all three of them!

  Gene Kranz : It's just a little medical mutiny, Doc. I'm sure the boys are still with us. Let's cut them a little slack, ok?

• Jack Swigert : [Swigert bumps his head on the ceiling of the crowded lunar module]  Oww! Goddamn this piece of shit!

  Fred Haise, Sr. : Hey! this piece of shit's going to get you home! That's 'cause that's the only thing we've got left, Jack.

  Jack Swigert : Well, what are you saying, Fred?

  Fred Haise, Sr. : Oh, I think you know what I'm saying...

  Jack Swigert : Now wait a minute... all I did was stir those tanks...

  Fred Haise, Sr. : What was that gauge reading before you hit the switch?

  Jack Swigert : Hey, don't tell me how to fly the damned CM, all right? They brought me in here to do a job, they asked me to stir the damned tanks, and I stirred the tanks!

  Fred Haise, Sr. : You didn't know what you were doing, do you?

  Jim Lovell : Jack, quit kicking yourself in the ass.

  Jack Swigert : This is NOT MY FAULT!

  Jim Lovell : No one is saying it is. If I'm in the left-hand seat when the call comes up, *I* stir the tanks.

  Jack Swigert : Yeah, well, tell *him* that.

  Fred Haise, Sr. : I just asked you what the gauge was reading. AND YOU DON'T KNOW!

  Jim Lovell : All right, we're not doing this, gentlemen. We are *not* going to do 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!

  CAPCOM 2 : Aquarius, this is Houston.

  Jim Lovell : [shouting]  ARE WE ON VOX?

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

  Jim Lovell : [Hits switch, calm tone]  Yeah, Houston, this is Aquarius. Go ahead.

• CAPCOM 2 : Uh, Jim, we've got another course correction for you.

  Jack Swigert : What's up?

  Fred Haise, Sr. : Something about another course correction.

  Jim Lovell : Uh, we copy, uh, Houston. Be advised, it's gonna take Freddo and I a while to power up the computer for the, uh, alignment platform if we have to fire the engine.

  CAPCOM 2 : Uh, negative on that, Jim. We can't, uh, spare power for the computer.

  Fred Haise, Sr. : We gotta do this blind?