:33:01
Just answer the goddamn question!
:33:04
...reverse thrusters
to back them away from the LEM.
:33:06
They've wanted to hold onto their
LEM lifeboat for as long as possible.
:33:11
The SCC's logic is on.
:33:15
Just copied that.
:33:16
You are go for pyro arm,
go for LEM jettison.
:33:21
Real fine.
Ten seconds.
:33:26
Five.
:33:29
- LEM jettisoned.
- Okay, that was the LEM.
:33:32
- At 141:30 ground elapsed time.
- Copy that. Farewell, Aquarius...
:33:35
10:43 a.m. Yeah.
:33:37
Quote this: "Farewell, Aquarius,
and we thank you." Yeah.
:33:43
This is Apollo Control...
:33:45
at 142 hours, 30 minutes.
:33:47
Apollo 13 is presently 6,000 miles
from Earth...
:33:50
traveling at a speed
of 25,000 miles per hour.
:33:54
Re-entry expected to begin
in ten minutes.
:34:04
In four minutes, the leading edge
of the command module...
:34:07
will bite into the atmosphere.
:34:08
And, as the accelerating ship
encounters the thickening air...
:34:12
friction will begin to build...
:34:14
generating temperatures of 4,000 degrees
across the face of the heat shield.
:34:18
If this energy generated
by the infernal descent...
:34:22
were converted to electricity...
:34:24
it would equal
86,000 kilowatt hours...
:34:27
enough to light up Los Angeles
for one and a half minutes.
:34:31
If it were converted
to kinetic energy...
:34:35
it could lift every man, woman and child
ten inches off the ground.
:34:39
For the craft, however,
it will have but one effect.
:34:42
As temperatures rise, a dense cloud
of ionized gas will surround the ship...
:34:46
reducing communication to a hash
of static for about three minutes.
:34:51
If radio contact is restored at the end
of this time, controllers will know...
:34:55
that the heat shield is intact...
:34:57
and the spacecraft did survive.
:34:59
If not, they will know that
the crew was consumed in flames.