:17:05
I'll just be glad
when this one's over.
:17:10
Well, you're gonna miss
a hell of a show.
:17:21
'- Jim.
'- Hey, guys. See ya in a few weeks.
:17:24
Take care.
Bring us back a moon rock.
:17:51
So the number 13
doesn't bother you.
:17:54
Only if it's a Friday, Phil.
:17:56
Apollo 13, lifting off
at 1300 hours and 13 minutes...
:18:00
and entering the moon's
gravity on April 13?
:18:03
Uh, Ken Mattingly here has been
doing some scientific experiments...
:18:07
regarding that very phenomenon,
haven't you?
:18:09
Uh, yes. Well, I had a black cat,
uh, walk over a broken mirror...
:18:14
under the lunar module ladder.
:18:16
It didn't seem to be a problem.
:18:18
We're considering a letter
we got from a fella...
:18:20
who said we oughta take
a pig with us for good luck.
:18:24
Does it bother you that the public
regards this flight as routine?
:18:27
There's nothing routine about flying
to the moon. I can vouch for that.
:18:31
And, uh, I think that
an astronaut's last mission'-'-
:18:35
his final flight'-'- that's always
going to be very special.
:18:40
Why is this your last, Jim?
:18:42
I'm in command
of the best ship...
:18:46
with the best crew
that anybody could ask for...
:18:49
and I'll be walking in a place
where there's 400 degrees difference...
:18:53
between sunlight and shadow.
:18:56
I can't imagine, uh,
ever topping that.