Houston We Have a Problem

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday January 5, 2011 @01:51AM from the oh-tom-hanks dept.

thanosk writes "NASA has started releasing the transcripts from the early NASA missions and started with releasing the transcripts of the Apollo 13 mission and the famous 'Houston we have a problem' quote."

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To translate into newspeak for you youngsters... by John+Hasler · 2011-01-05 01:58 · Score: 5, Funny

...that would be "Houston we have an issue".

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Re:To translate into newspeak for you youngsters.. by tverbeek · 2011-01-05 02:00 · Score: 5, Funny

"Houston, this is so unfair!"

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Re:That's one small step for ? by jimbolauski · 2011-01-05 02:02 · Score: 5, Funny

I really want to know what people are going to write for the statement that Neil Armstrong made when he stepped off the LEM ladder.
"Can we do a retake?"

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Re:Misquoted by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-05 02:10 · Score: 5, Funny

Vladimir Komarov supposedly had a few choice words for the Russian space agency just before his crash.
Re:To translate into newspeak for you youngsters.. by j00r0m4nc3r · 2011-01-05 02:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Apollo: hustun we has teh prob. LOL
Houston: n00bs...
Re:That's one small step for ? by PPH · 2011-01-05 03:38 · Score: 3, Funny

Or if the boom operator accidentally lowered the microphone into the scene for a moment.

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Re:To translate into newspeak for you youngsters.. by w0mprat · 2011-01-05 07:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Apollo 13: srsly HALP!!!11!!

Houston: RTFM!!

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