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

7 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:40:53 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- 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.

- Freddo, you handle the pitch.

- Put on the translation controllers, all backwards so if the Earth starts drifting down you need to thrust aft, not forward.

- I'll do the same on mine with everything else.

- We're going to burn at 10 percent thrust for 39 seconds. Jack, you time us?

- Got it.

[...]

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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