Minute 050: A Pleasant Evening

GUEST: ACTOR BRETT CULLEN

Jim Lovell is completing the narration of the Apollo XIII TV broadcast.

“-Aquarius, and return to the Odyssey,” says Lovell, ” our next broadcast will be from Fra Mauro, on the surface of the Moon. So, this is the crew of the Apollo Thirteen, wishing everyone back on Earth  a – – a pleasant evening.”

The screen goes dark.

“Alright,” says Marilyn Lovell, standing up and motioning to her children to leave.

“Daddy was funny!” says Fred Haise, Jr.

NASA PAO Henry Hurt stops Marilyn Lovell. “You know,” he says, “they might air a few minutes on the news tonight.”

“You’d think so,” says Marilyn.  She and the children walk toward the exit, Henry saying “Bye,”  to Barbara Lovell.

“Well,” says Lovell, stowing an oxygen hose in the Lower Equipment Bay of Odyssey, “Between Jack’s back taxes and the Fred Haise Show, I’d say that was a pretty successful broadcast!”

“That was an excellent show, Odyssey,” says CAPCOM.

“Thank you very much, Houston,” says Jack Swigert.

“Uh, we got a couple of housekeeping procedures for you,” says CAPCOM, “We’d like you to roll right to zero-six-zero and null your rates.”

“Roger that,” says Swigert, “Rolling right, zero-six-zero.” Swigert punches numbers into Odyssey’s DSKY computer interface.

IN THIS MINUTE:

Jim Lovell: Tom Hanks

Jack Swigert: Kevin Bacon

Fred Haise: Bill Paxton

Marilyn Lovell:  Kathleen Quinlan

Barbara Lovell: Mary Kate Schellhardt

Susan Lovell: Emily Ann Lloyd

Henry Hurt: Xander Berkeley

Fred Haise, Jr.: Taylor Caldwell

CAPCOM: Brett Cullen