Apollo 13 Transcript available online.
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.
(Tom said, “Houston, we have a problem.”)
The way I understand it, ‘Houston – we have a problem’ is the expression everyone uses for when they have a problem
This wasn’t a movie to make NASA officials to pull up their socks, but designed as a populist form of entertainment
It could have been greatly improved a)without Tom Hanks, 2) showing them drinking their own piss 3) it had a scarier alien than Alien