They were recalled to Earth 20 years ago, their mission considered a failure.
5 seconds sound clip from the The Black Hole (1979) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:07:21.140 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- Doctor. Kate, wasn't that the ship your father was on?
- U.S.S. Cygnus. Its mission, to discover habitable life in outer space. Same as ours.
- Activate the sensors, Charlie.
- You bet.
- They were recalled to Earth 20 years ago, their mission considered a failure.
- How that must've galled Doctor. Hans Reinhardt.
- Did you ever meet Commander Reinhardt?
- Collided with him would be a more accurate description.
- Reinhardt had the knack of making his own ambitions seem like a matter of national pride.
- He talked the Space Appropriations Committee into the costliest fiasco of all time.
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