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Mar 2, 1974 · Houston, We've Got a Problem: Directed by Lawrence Doheny. With Robert Culp, Clu Gulager, Gary Collins, Sandra Dee. NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
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- Lawrence Doheny
- 1974-03-02
Houston, We've Got a Problem is a 1974 American made-for-television drama film about the Apollo 13 spaceflight, directed by Lawrence Doheny and starring Ed Nelson in the role of NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz.
- Drama / Sci-Fi
- Lawrence Doheny
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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...
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. The phrase has been informally used to describe the emergence of an unforeseen problem, often with a sense of ironic understatement .
- "Okay, Houston ... we've had a problem here"
- Apollo 13 (mission)
- Jack Swigert (April 14, 1970)
Houston, We've Got a Problem 1974 1 hr. 14 min. Drama List Reviews Ground control personnel (Robert Culp, Clu Gulager) face a crisis in this drama based on the 1970 Apollo 13 moon...
Release Date. 1974. Production Company. ABC Entertainment Group. Technical Specs. Duration. 1h 30m. TCM Emails. Sign Up. A thriller about the struggle to return the Apollo 13 astronauts safely to earth after their moon-bound spacecraft was damaged by an explosion, in this film based on the actual events of the abortive mission.
