Our mission was called a successful failure, in that we returned safely, but never made it to the moon.

7 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:12:22 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Odyssey Houston. Do you read?

- Hello, Houston, this is Odyssey. It's good to see you again.

- Odyssey, Houston. Welcome home. We're glad to see you.

- Houston, we're at stable one. The ship is secure.

- This is Apollo 13 signing off.

- Good job.

- Our mission was called a successful failure, in that we returned safely, but never made it to the moon.

- In the following months, it was determined that a damaged coil built inside the oxygen tank sparked during our cryo stir and caused the explosion that crippled the Odyssey.

- It was a minor defect that occurred two years before I was even named the flight's commander.

- Fred Haise was going back to the moon on Apollo 18, but his mission was canceled because of budget cuts.

- He never flew in space again.

- Nor did Jack Swigert, who left the astronaut corps and was elected to Congress from the state of Colorado.

[...]

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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