Apollo 13 (I) (1995)
Clint Howard: Sy Liebergot - EECOM White
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Quotes
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.