Well, if the chutes don't open, what's the point?

— Ken Mattingly (Gary Sinise)

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5 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:44:30 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Here's the order of what I want to do.

- I want to power up guidance, ECS, communications, warm up the pyros for the parachutes and the command module thrusters.

- The thrusters are gonna put you over budget on amps.

- Well, they've been sitting at 200 below for four days. They gotta be heated.

- Fine. Then trade off the parachutes, something.

- Well, if the chutes don't open, what's the point?

- You're telling me what you need. I'm telling you what we have to work with at this point. I'm not making this stuff up.

- They're going to need all these systems.

- We do not have the power. We just don't have it.

- Okay, I'm gonna go back and reorganize the sequencing again... find more power.

- Let's start from scratch. Clear the board.

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Apollo 13 Sound Clip

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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