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** Then there was where once INCO called out four minutes since radio blackout, and there was still nothing, we see the Lovell family, wherever they are watching, fearing the worst-case scenario has happened and the heat shield failed. Kranz is the last to be shown, hanging his head in defeat, thinking everything they've worked for up to that point has been for nothing as Mattingly tries one last time to raise the Command Module, but just then, Kranz lifts his head back up to the sound of radio static, then the video feed glitching before showing the intact CM deploying its parachutes as it makes its final, and safe, descent back to Earth...AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.

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** Then there was where once INCO called out four minutes since radio blackout, and there was still nothing, we see the Lovell family, wherever they are watching, fearing the worst-case scenario has happened and the heat shield failed. Kranz is the last to be shown, hanging his head in defeat, thinking everything they've worked for up to that point has been for nothing as Mattingly tries one last time to raise the Command Module, but just then, Kranz lifts his head back up to the sound of radio static, then the video feed glitching before showing the intact CM deploying its parachutes as it makes its final, and safe, descent back to Earth...AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.
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** Then there was where once INCO called out four minutes since radio blackout, and there was still nothing, we see the Lovell family, wherever they are watching, fearing the worst-case scenario has happened and the heat shield failed. Kranz is the last to be shown, hanging his head in defeat, thinking everything they've worked for up to that point has been for nothing as Mattingly tries one last time to raise the Command Module, but just then, Kranz lifts his head back up to the sound of radio static, then the video feed glitching before showing the intact CM deploying its parachutes as it makes its final, and safe, descent back to Earth...
--> '''Lovell:''' Hello Houston, this is ''Odyssey.'' It's good to see you again.
** AndThereWasMuchRejoicing

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** Then there was where once INCO called out four minutes since radio blackout, and there was still nothing, we see the Lovell family, wherever they are watching, fearing the worst-case scenario has happened and the heat shield failed. Kranz is the last to be shown, hanging his head in defeat, thinking everything they've worked for up to that point has been for nothing as Mattingly tries one last time to raise the Command Module, but just then, Kranz lifts his head back up to the sound of radio static, then the video feed glitching before showing the intact CM deploying its parachutes as it makes its final, and safe, descent back to Earth...
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Earth...AndThereWasMuchRejoicing.
--->
'''Lovell:''' Hello Houston, this is ''Odyssey.'' It's good to see you again.
** AndThereWasMuchRejoicing
again.
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* Kranz's bold statement that America has never lost anyone in space while awesome, and true in the time the movie is set in was tragically not true when the movie was actually released, as the Challenger disaster had been almost a decade prior. And assuming that doesn't count because Challenger never technically made it to space (Apollo 1 despite losing the entire crew and happening well before Apollo 13 apparantly didn't count in Kranz's eyes since it also never technically made it to space or even off the launchpad) it would happen without any uncertainty a few years later when Columbia broke up in reentry.
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** To elaborate, Jim says this once it becomes clear that reaching the moon is impossible and they need to start scrambling to stop the oxygen from leaking out of the ''Odyssey''.

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