If everything's on, the LEM draws 60 amps. At that rate, in 16 hours the batteries are dead, not 45. And so is the crew. We gotta get them down to 12 amps.

12 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:15:41 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- We've got to talk about power here. Guys! Power is everything!

- Power is everything. Without it, they don't talk to us, they don't correct their trajectory and they don't turn the heat shield around.

- We gotta turn everything off. Now.

- They're not gonna make it to re-entry.

- What do you mean, everything?

- If everything's on, the LEM draws 60 amps. At that rate, in 16 hours the batteries are dead, not 45. And so is the crew. We gotta get them down to 12 amps.

- Twelve amps?

- You can't run a vacuum cleaner on 12 amps, John.

- We gotta turn off the radars, cabin heater instrument displays, guidance computer, the whole smash.

- Guidance computer? What if they need to do another burn? They won't know which way they're pointed.

- The more time we talk down here, the more juice they waste up there. I've been looking at the data for the past hour.

- That's the deal?

- That's the deal.

[...]

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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