And after that sudden and horrible fire on the launch pad during a routine test that killed American astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, there were serious doubts that we could beat the Russians to the moon.

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16 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:01:06 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- The crew's crossing gantry for capsule ingress.

- Inspired by the late President Kennedy, in only seven years, America has risen to the challenge of what he called 'the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked'.

- After trailing the Russians for years with our manned space program...

- And after that sudden and horrible fire on the launch pad during a routine test that killed American astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee, there were serious doubts that we could beat the Russians to the moon.

- But tonight, a mere 18 months after the tragedy of Apollo 1, the entire world watched in awe as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.

- The big news came just a moment ago.

- Mission Control gave the spacecraft permission to go for the extravehicular activity that is, for the walk on the moon far earlier than anticipated, 9:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time

- The important thing when you penetrate the lunar module is your attitude and relative speed.

- Let's say this is me here in the command module and this is you - in the LEM.

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Apollo 13 Sound Clip

Voice quotes and sound clips from the movie Apollo 13 (1995). All waveform samples are in .wav and .mp3 format.

Actors: Tom Hanks (Jim Lovell), Bill Paxton (Fred Haise), Kevin Bacon (Jack Swigert), Gary Sinise (Ken Mattingly), Ed Harris (Gene Kranz)

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