How Mission Control Saved the Apollo 13 Crew

On April 14th, 1970, astronauts Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, and Jim Lovell are two days into the third moon-landing attempt on Apollo 13, when something goes terribly wrong.
From: SPACE VOYAGES: Surviving the Void
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"Houston, we have a problem"
Hear those famous words as they were actually spoken on this day in 1970 - the day the Apollo 13 mission went terribly wrong.

[@spurlicos]

Er... Wasn't it technically, "Houston, we've had a problem?" Past tense rather than present? That line's been quoted incorrectly for decades now.

[@pajasa62]

I remember my entire elementary school...all 8 grades going to church the morning of the splashdown of Apollo 13. Those were nervous days on earth too!

[@jenniferjuniper97]

NASA's finest hour, indeed! Bravo!

[@reagame8700]

Literally fitting a square into something round. An idiom and metaphor come to life!

[@alphawhiskey3311]

The square peg into a round hole problem lol you can't make this up. I remember in the Apollo 13 movie they made a joke about that

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"tamed space" Man will never take space, just like we haven't tamed Earth

[@nivenworld6035]

That guy smoking at 2:54 is that the commander on the doomed space shuttle challenger?

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I love you Apollo crew

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That american engineers and scientists. Great efforts

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And don't forget DUCT TAPE!

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Flex Tape

[@TheGrenadier97]

3:03 - Cigars up gentlemen, well done.

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haha you guys did not say the name of the person who came up with the idea of that box.

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unlucky 13

[@fratermunky4336]

In this video you said it was multiple engineers at nasa that figured it out. In the other video y'all said it was one man, someone named Smiley. I'm confused

[@TheMax0005]

The each guys at mission control was probably smoking 3 packs a day

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19an191 hurts

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A old sock...