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The 1995 film Apollo 13 used the slight misquotation "Houston, we have a problem", which had become the popularly expected phrase, in its dramatization of the mission. [1] The phrase has been informally used to describe the emergence of an unforeseen problem, often with a sense of ironic understatement .
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The Apollo 13 mission was supposed to be the third lunar landing in American history, but it failed when one of the oxygen tanks aboard the spaceship called Odyssey exploded. It had only launched two days prior on April 11, 1970. Luckily, the pilots, Commander James A. Lovell Jr., command module pilot John L. Swigert Jr., and lunar module pilot Fre...
With their ship now crippled by the explosion of their oxygen tanks, the crew had one recourse back to Earth: the undamaged Aquarius lunar lander. The lander wasn’t supposed to be used until Apollo 13 was ready to land on the Moon and it wasn’t outfitted for the trip back into Earth, but the crew had no other choice. Because the Aquarius was design...
The phrase made famous by Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon in the film, “Houston, we have a problem,” is not entirely correct and, apparently, the filmmakers were fully aware of this discrepancy. According to NASA, the screenwriters simply smoothed out the original, “Okay Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” for the sake of dramatic effect. As for the rest...
Jun 18, 2024 · If you ‘have’ a problem, it becomes the problem of everybody watching the film. If you’ve ‘had’ a problem, congratulations. Tell us how you fixed it.
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Houston(‘s), we have a problem – Houston’s is yet another slick corporate package, the antithesis of a mom-and-pop restaurant. The phrase was used again, in 2001, to report the health and addiction problems of the singer Whitney Houston.
Apr 14, 2017 · An astronaut radioed mission control: “Houston, we have a problem.” The phrase became a cultural touchstone. Sportscasters say it. Politicians say it. In books, movies, plays, and music,...
Apr 13, 2020 · Aboard the spacecraft, about 1 to 2 seconds after the bang, the Master Alarm light and the Main Direct Current (DC) B Bus Undervolt light went on, followed by a Fuel Cell light. That prompted Swigert to call Mission Control, “Okay, Houston, we’ve had a problem here.”.
Nov 19, 2019 · The command module lost normal supplies of electricity, light and water. The astronauts called “Houston,”  which was a nickname for mission control. Specifically, it referred to the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center at the  Manned Spacecraft Center.
