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Houston, we have a problem
1970 misquotation from Apollo 13
Houston, we have a problem
"Houston, we have a problem" is a popular misquote of a phrase spoken during Apollo 13, a NASA mission in the Apollo space program and the third mission intended to land on the Moon. After an explosion occurred on board the spacecraft en route to the Moon around 56 hours into the mission, Jack Swigert, the command module pilot, reported to Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas: "Okay, Houston ... we've had a problem here." After Swigert was prompted to repeat his words by Jack R. Lousma, the capsule communicator at Mission Control, Jim Lovell, the mission commander, responded: "Ah, Houston, we've had a problem." Although the Houston Chronicle later identified Ron Howard's 1995 drama film Apollo 13 as the source of the popular misquotation, the error was of longer standing. The 1974 television drama Houston, We've Got a Problem, largely about Mission Control's perspective on the emergency, had brought a misstatement of the phrase into popular culture years earlier. Later, in 1983, NASA...
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