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‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’ says Jim Lovell

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Jim Lovell, one of the astronauts who helped guided the Apollo 13 mission safely back to Earth in 1970, has died aged 97.

The attempt to land on the Moon was aborted because of an explosion onboard the spacecraft while it was hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth.

“Houston, we’ve had a problem,” Lovell said at the time to a stunned Mission Control. It was something of an understatement.

Tens of millions watched on television as Lovell and two other astronauts splashed back down into the Pacific Ocean, a moment which has become one of the most iconic in the history of space travel.

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