Television Reporter Quotes in Apollo 13 (1995)
Television Reporter Quotes:
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Television Reporter: Is there a specific instance in an airplane emergency when you can recall fear?
Jim Lovell: Uh well, I'll tell ya, I remember this one time - I'm in a Banshee at night in combat conditions, so there's no running lights on the carrier. It was the Shrangri-La, and we were in the Sea of Japan and my radar had jammed, and my homing signal was gone... because somebody in Japan was actually using the same frequency. And so it was - it was leading me away from where I was supposed to be. And I'm lookin' down at a big, black ocean, so I flip on my map light, and then suddenly: zap. Everything shorts out right there in my cockpit. All my instruments are gone. My lights are gone. And I can't even tell now what my altitude is. I know I'm running out of fuel, so I'm thinking about ditching in the ocean. And I, I look down there, and then in the darkness there's this uh, there's this green trail. It's like a long carpet that's just laid out right beneath me. And it was the algae, right? It was that phosphorescent stuff that gets churned up in the wake of a big ship. And it was - it was - it was leading me home. You know? If my cockpit lights hadn't shorted out, there's no way I'd ever been able to see that. So uh, you, uh, never know... what... what events are to transpire to get you home.
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Characters on Apollo 13 (1995)
- Jim Lovell
- NASA Director
- Gene Kranz
- Blanche Lovell
- Susan Lovell
- Marilyn Lovell
- Henry Hurt
- CAPCOM 2
- Dr. Chuck
- Jack Swigert
- Sy Liebergot
- Ken Mattingly
- Fred Haise, Sr.
- Jeffrey Lovell
- Barbara Lovell
- Deke Slayton
- R.E.T.R.O. White
- John Aaron, EECOM Arthur
- Fred Haise
- John Young
- Jerry Bostick - FIDO White
- NASA engineer
- Booster White
- GUIDO White
- Pete Conrad
- INCO White