1:12:03
So you're telling me you can
only give our guys 45 hours?
1:12:08
That brings them to about there.
1:12:14
Gentlemen, that's not acceptable.
1:12:16
Gene, Gene, we've got
to talk about power.
1:12:20
Whoa, whoa, guys!
Power is everything!
1:12:23
'- Power is everything.
'- What do you mean?
1:12:25
Without it, they don't talk to us,
they don't correct their trajectory,
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they don't turn
the heat shield around.
1:12:30
We gotta turn everything off, now.
They're not gonna make it to reentry.
1:12:35
'- What do you mean, "everything"?
'- With everything on,
the LEM draws 60 amps.
1:12:38
At that rate, in 16 hours
the batteries are dead, not 45.
1:12:42
And so is the crew.
We gotta get them down to 12 amps.
1:12:45
'- Twelve amps?
'- How many?
1:12:47
You can't run a vacuum cleaner
on 12 amps, John.
1:12:49
We gotta turn off'-'- We have to
turn off the radars, cabin heater,
1:12:52
instrument displays,
the guidance computer, the whole smash.
1:12:55
Whoa! Guidance computer.
What if they need to do another burn?
1:12:57
They won't even know
which way they're pointed.
1:13:00
The more time we talk,
the more juice they waste.
1:13:03
'- That's the deal?
'- That's the deal.
1:13:10
Okay, John. The minute we finish
the burn, we'll power down the LEM.
1:13:15
All right.
1:13:17
Now in the meantime, we're gonna have
a frozen command module up there.
1:13:21
We're gonna have to power it up using
nothing but the reentry batteries.
1:13:24
'- That's never been tried.
'- We've never even simulated it before.
1:13:28
Well, we're gonna
have to figure it out.
1:13:30
I want people in our simulators
working reentry scenarios.
1:13:34
I want you to find every engineer who
designed every switch, every circuit,
1:13:37
and every light bulb
that's up there.
1:13:39
Then talk to the guy in the assembly
line who actually built the thing.
1:13:43
Find out how to squeeze every amp
out of both of these goddamn machines.
1:13:46
I want this mark all the way
back to Earth with time to spare.
1:13:51
We never lost
an American in space.
1:13:53
We're sure as hell not
gonna lose one on my watch.
1:13:56
Failure is not an option.