See, this is the Saturn 4B booster and it shoots us away from the Earth as fast as a bullet from a gun until the moon's gravity actually grabs us and pulls us into a circle around the moon which is called an orbit. All right?
24 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:14:31 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- I thought the stars would fall down on you or something.
- That's silly. Stars can't fall on us.
- You're a smarter kid than I was.
- How long will it take you to get to the moon?
- Better than Neil Armstrong. Way better than Pete Conrad.
- Did you know the astronauts in the fire?
- Yeah. I knew the astronauts in the fire. All of them.
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