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Look, it will ignite, will it not?

4 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:40:35 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- I want you to understand that we've never tried this before: burn, cold soak, burn, cold soak, burn, manual control.

- Look, it will ignite, will it not?

- I just want you to know the engine's never been tried like this. That's all I'm trying to tell you.

- I know what you're trying to do. I guarantee I won't hold you personally responsible.

- If it lights, it lights. Let Lovell do the rest.

- Okay.

- They're gonna burn the engine and steer it manually attempting to keep the Earth in the window.

- Okay, this is gonna take all three of us.

[...]

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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