No re-entering ship has ever taken longer than three minutes to emerge from blackout.
7 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 02:06:55 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
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- It all depends on the heat shield.
- Back to the Iwo Jima and our live cameras there.
- Coming up now on three minutes until time of drogue deployment.
- Standing by for any reports of acquisition.
- One minute and 30 seconds to end of blackout.
- No re-entering ship has ever taken longer than three minutes to emerge from blackout.
- This is the critical moment. Will the heat shield hold?
- Okay, Flight, that's three minutes. We are standing by for acquisition.
- Odyssey, Houston. Do you read me? Odyssey, this is Houston. Do you read?
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