If you see this ammeter rise over 20 at any point, power-up is no good. If it spikes, that's sayonara for the guidance computer. Our guys can't re-enter, okay?
9 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 01:17:50 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Crew's fine so far. Trying to keep them alive in the LEM.
- We'll have to shut that down pretty soon, too.
- We got a lot of people working the numbers on this one.
- Nobody's too sure how much power we're gonna have when we hit re-entry.
- The command module is gonna be frozen up pretty good by then.
- How much power do we have to play with?
- Barely enough to run this coffee pot for nine hours.
- Go.
- Ken Mattingly just got here.
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