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I guess that's the best we can do. We're out of time.

5 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:39:55 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Well, Houston, we've got one.

- If we can keep the Earth in the window, flying manually the crosshairs right on its terminator, all I have to know is, how long do we need to burn the engine?

- The shorter, the better.

- Roger that, Jim.

- Can they fly it manually and still shut it down on time without the computer?

- I guess that's the best we can do. We're out of time.

- In order to enter the atmosphere safely, the crew must aim for a corridor just two-and-a-half degrees wide.

- If they're too steep, they'll incinerate in the steadily thickening air.

- If they're too shallow, they'll ricochet off the atmosphere like a rock skipping off a pond.

- The re-entry corridor is, in fact, so narrow that if this basketball were the Earth and this softball were the moon, and the two were placed 14 feet apart, the crew would have to hit a target no thicker than this piece of paper.

- Okay, people, on your toes. We're doing this one blind.

[...]

Apollo 13 Sound Clip

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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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