Odyssey. "To close out" something is to shut it down. Remember that Aquarius is the lunar module and Odyssey is the bigger command module. They might air a few minutes of it on the news tonight. :: You’d think so. "To air" a show is to broadcast it on TV. The second sentence is Marilyn’s way of saying "I would hope so!" We’ve got a couple of house keeping procedures for you. This refers to routine or normal things that must be done on a regular schedule, such as checking the various control instruments. An explosion rocks the spaceship, and Apollo 13 finds itself in crisis. Houston, we have a problem. We have a lot of thruster activity. The first sentence here is the most famous line in the movie. "Thruster activity" refers to the thruster engines, which are used to push the rocket ship forward with great amounts of energy. We’ve got multiple caution and warning. "Multiple" is an important word meaning several or many, and "caution" means warning, and is used as a way of telling people to be careful. All of this is Jim’s way of saying the computers are giving several different types of warnings. Jesus, they’re heart rates are skyrocketing. "Jesus" is used to express great emotion, like shock or anger. "Heart rates" refers to how fast the astronauts’ hearts are beating, and "to skyrocket" means to go up very fast. ECOM, is this an instrumentation problem, or are we looking at a power loss? If a problem is related to "instrumentation," it is the instruments, or machines that read information, which are broken. If there is a "power loss," this means that electrical power is no longer available. I’m reading a quadruple failure. That can’t happen. The failure or malfunction of four things at the same time. The LEM might have been hit by a meteor. A small piece of material that flies through space, like a comet. Main Bus B is reading zip right now. "The main bus" is a group of computerized instruments. "Zip" is a common colloquial word for 0 (zero). We got a wicked shimmy up here. "Wicked" is a powerful word that means evil, or in this case, horrible. "To shimmy" is to move, wobble or shake back and forth, though note here the word is used as a noun, which is rare. I’m going to try and get us out of this lurch. A "lurch" is a sudden movement in one direction, or, as in this case, a very difficult situation. We keep flirting with gimbal lock. "To flirt" with somebody is to play with them in a romantic way, though here it means simply to get close to. A "gimbal lock" is an instrument for measuring direction, and is often used in this film. We need a confirmation. What systems do you have down? A "confirmation" is information that proves or verifies a belief. If a system, computer or machine i
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