“Houston, we had a problem,” says Jim Lovel

Jim Lovel, one of the astronauts, who helped the mission of Apollo 13 safely back to Earth in 1970, died at the age of 97.

The attempt to land the moon was interrupted due to an explosion aboard the spacecraft while it was hundreds of thousands of miles from the ground.

“Houston, we had a problem,” said the Mission Control Lovel at the time. It was something like an underestimation.

Tens of millions watched on television as Lovel and two other astronauts scattered back into the Pacific, a moment that has become one of the most emblematic in the history of space trip.

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