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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Misquoted by Sacro · 2011-01-05 01:54 · Score: 5, Informative

The actual quote was "Houston we've had a problem".
1. 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.
2. Re:Misquoted by spectro · 2011-01-05 02:37 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Looking for the exact quote? Here you go
  
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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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Beatles in Space by digitaldc · 2011-01-05 02:25 · Score: 5, Interesting

01 00 16 12
Jim Lovell (CDR)
Gosh, we had forgotten, but we'd like to hear what the news is.
01 00 16 15
Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)
Okay. There's not a whole lot to it. Well, let's see, we'll start with the—Let's start with sports, what the heck. The Astros survived 8 to 7, the Braves got five or six runs in the—five runs in the ninth inning, but they just made it; and in the other important game of the day, the Cubs were rained out. I have all the rest of the scores, you can tell me if you want any of them. They had earthquakes in Manila and other areas of the island of Luzon. There were three tremors and they kept the buildings shaking for about a half an hour or so, and it was about a 5 on the Richter scale.
Okay, let's see. The Beatles have announced they will no longer perform as a group. The quartet is reported to have made in excess of a half billion dollars during their short musical career. However, rumors that they will use this money to start their own space program are false. 01 00 17 24
Jim Lovell (CDR)
Maybe we could borrow some.
01 00 17 26
Joe Kerwin (CAPCOM)

(Laughter) Okay. Okay.

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shortcut to the famous quote by martyb · 2011-01-05 02:33 · Score: 5, Informative

Okay, so the summary points to the root of the web site. If you'd rather not navigate through the different missions and multimedia items to find it, here's a direct link to the "Houston, we've had a problem" quote:

02 07 55 19 Fred Haise (LMP) Okay, Houston -- 02 07 55 20 Jack Swigert (CMP) I believe we've had a problem here. 02 07 55 28 Jack Lousma (CAPCOM) This is Houston. Say again, please. 02 07 55 35 Jim Lovell (CDR) Houston, we've had a problem. We've had a MAIN B BUS UNDERVOLT.
Re:Starting to release? by RussGarrett · 2011-01-05 03:09 · Score: 5, Informative

Yep. We built Spacelog to make the transcripts in NASA PDFs more accessible and searchable. For some reason everyone thinks we're NASA and this content is new. (We're not related to NASA.)
What is news is that NASA has recently started to release the full mission audio for Apollo/Gemini/Mercury missions on archive.org. Hopefully we'll be able to do something fun with that.