The Apollo 13 spaceship left from Cape Canaveral on 11 April 1970, directed to the Moon. People even still utter the words to this day. Such is the power of film, Tom Hanks and simple language to catch on in the culture — right? 'Houston, we have a problem' is right up there with 'Beam me up Scotty' at the top of the spaceflight-related quotations tree. An explosion happened at an advanced stage of the mission, wasting oxygen, power and control. Who can forget the moment Tom Hanks said, “Houston, we have a problem” in 1995’s Apollo 13?. “I always just assumed it was, ‘Houston, we have a problem,’” she said. John Swigert, Jr. and James Lovell who, with Fred Haise Jr., made up the crew of the US's Apollo 13 moon flight, reported a problem back to their base in Houston on 14th April, 1970. AD But what Lovell said was, "Houston, we've had a problem." Prior to the Mandela Effect, the famous line from the Apollo 13 mission used to say "Houston, we have a problem". 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