Apollo 13 Quotes

Houston, we’ve had a problem. – Jim Lovell

Failure is not an option. – Gene Kranz

The world stopped for a moment… we gave it a collective deep breath. – Jim Lovell

I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. – John F. Kennedy

Apollo 13, Houston, we are venting something out into space. – Jim Lovell

We’ve never lost an American in space, we’re sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option. – Gene Kranz

We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver’s seat. – Jim Lovell

We just lost the platform. – Jim Lovell

Apollo 13 is in a world of hurt. – Jerry Bostick

I swear, if they couldn’t fix their damn machines, there’d be nothin’ left in Houston but a bunch of smoke and steam. – Fred Haise

We’ve got a new mission: let’s get our guys home. – Gene Kranz

With all due respect sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour. – Gene Kranz

It’s not a miracle at all. We just decided to go. – Jim Lovell

We’ve never lost a commander before, and I’m not about to start now. – Jim Lovell

Houston, we are venting something again. – Jim Lovell

I don’t care about what anything was DESIGNED to do. I care about what it CAN do. – Gene Kranz

I sometimes catch myself looking up at the Moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our long voyage, thinking of the thousands of people who worked to bring the three of us home. – Jim Lovell

Mare Tranquillitatis… or the Sea of Tranquility. It’s that flat. You could drop a plumb bob in it and never know. – Jim Lovell

We’re not losing power, Houston. We are kerping power. We have most of the guidance system on the Command Module and it’s climbing faster than a son of a bitch. – Jack Swigert

We’d always had this dream of being the first people to look back at Earth from the far side of the Moon. – Jim Lovell

As far as I’m concerned, this is a successful failure. – Gene Kranz

Gentlemen, what are we going to do about the carbon dioxide? – Jack Swigert

We’ve got to get them down to minimum. Doggonnit, I want it lowered… even if it means one guy has to stay behind. – Gene Kranz

What are you trying to do, kill everything on board? It’s already dead. – Ken Mattingly

Hell of a problem to have. – Fred Haise

This will be the greatest camping trip of our lives. – Jim Lovell

Don’t worry. We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver’s seat. – Ken Mattingly

With all the exits blocked first they came for my engines, then my radio waves. I’m even having trouble with my thruster quads. – Jim Lovell

There’s a thousand things that have to happen in order. We are on number eight. You’re talking about number six hundred and ninety-two. – Gene Kranz

We’ve got to put that carbon dioxide level down or they’re going to get poisoned before the get back. – John Aaron

Houston, we are re-entering. – Fred Haise

The ship is bleeding. – Jack Swigert

Let’s work the problem, people. Let’s not make things worse by guessing. – Gene Kranz

You can’t tell from here, but we are running up the EST and LMP valves. We could be powering up right now. – Ken Mattingly

I think if we don’t find a way to make this fit into the hole… it’s gonna be the biggest, farthest, most expensive foot fault in history. – John Aaron

We just had our vehicle remodeled, and it’s still shaking itself apart! – Jim Lovell

We’ve never had anything like this ever happen before, and we don’t have any procedure for it. – Jerry Bostick

Godspeed, Jim. – Ken Mattingly

In the vacuum of space, my blood will boil. – Fred Haise

We’ve got cold food, cold showers, and no way to get home. All in all, I guess you could say it’s been a pretty good day. – Jack Swigert

If we don’t get this done, people are gonna be fat and out of shape, they’re not gonna have energy, and then who’s gonna take care of national defense? – Gene Kranz

Our mission was originally intended to test the spacecraft and lunar module in moon orbit, but we’re not gonna land. However, we will be going farther into space than anyone ever has. – Jim Lovell

This is the way we fix things here, Gene. We get some duct tape and wait for the corn flakes section. – Jack Swigert

Vance, I don’t give a damn about what anything was designed to do. I care about what it can do. – Gene Kranz

How many more systems have to shut down before I can go home? – Fred Haise

I think that we’ve had our fill of space machines for this trip. – Jim Lovell

We are go for one more midcourse correction. – Jim Lovell

Use what you have. Do what you can. – Gene Kranz

Fred, you know, if you hold that disk up to a full moon, you can see through it. – Jim Lovell

The power is dropping like a rock. – Jack Swigert