There's nothing routine about flying to the moon. I can vouch for that.

— Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks)

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6 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:19:13 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Apollo 13, lifting off at 1300 hours and 13 minutes and entering the moon's gravity on April 13?

- Ken Mattingly here has been doing some scientific experiments regarding that very phenomenon.

- Yes, well, I had a black cat walk over a broken mirror under the lunar module ladder. It didn't seem to be a problem.

- We're also considering a really helpful letter we got from a fellow who said we ought to take a pig with us for good luck.

- Does it bother you that the public regards this flight as routine?

- There's nothing routine about flying to the moon. I can vouch for that.

- And I think that an astronaut's last mission, his final flight, that's always gonna be very special.

- Why is this your last, Jim?

- I'm in command of the best ship with the best crew that anybody could ask for and I'll be walking in a place where there's 400 degrees difference between sunlight and shadow.

- I can't imagine ever topping that.

[...]

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