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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.

7 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:19:04 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

(Vintage camera click)

- So, the number 13 doesn't bother you?

- Only if it's a Friday.

- 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.

[...]

Apollo 13 Sound Clip

Apollo 13 poster

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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