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Will the command module survive the intense heat of re-entry? If it doesn't, there'll only be silence.

9 seconds sound clip from the Apollo 13 movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:07:04 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- The Navy recovery and rescue helicopters already airborne, circling, waiting for first radar contact.

- Coming up now on three minutes until time of drogue deployment.

- Standing by for any reports of acquisition.

- One minute and 30 seconds to end of blackout.

- No re-entering ship has ever taken longer than three minutes to emerge from blackout.

- This is the critical moment. Will the heat shield hold?

- Will the command module survive the intense heat of re-entry? If it doesn't, there'll only be silence.

- Mommy, you're squishing me.

- Oops, sorry, sweetie.

- Okay, Flight, that's three minutes. We are standing by for acquisition.

- Copy that.

- Odyssey, Houston. Do you read me? Odyssey, this is Houston. Do you read?

- Expected time of reacquisition, the time when the astronauts were expected to come out of blackout, has come and gone.

- About all any of us can do now is just listen and hope.

[...]

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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