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?

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12 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:39:34 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Houston, what's the story with this burn?

- We're trying to hash something out down here, Aquarius. Stand by.

- Well, now, look, Houston, all we need to hold attitude is one fixed point in space. Is that not correct?

- Yeah. Roger that, Jim.

- 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.

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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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