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The best-known Apollo 13 quotes originated not in space or Mission Control, but in Hollywood.
Their moon-bound spacecraft wrecked by an oxygen tank explosion on April 13, 1970, the astronauts urgently radioed, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here.”
The writers for the 1995 film Apollo 13 wanted to improve it.
Thus was born: “Houston, we have a problem.”
Even more artistic license was obtained with the mobilizing speech by NASA flight director Gene Kranz to his team in Houston.
Kranz never stated, “Failure is not an option.”
When asked what he actually said to flight controllers, Kranz recited it without hesitation a half century later.
“I’ve never lost an American in space, I’m sure I’m not going to lose one now.
“This team is coming home. You have to believe it.
“Your team must believe it. And we must make it happen. “
Kranz said the filmmakers came up with: “Failure is not an option.”
He does not regret not having said it, saying: “No, I am satisfied with what I said.”
Kranz constantly finds himself making things clear, “in fact, every time I speak.”
“I try not to plagiarize,” he said with a smile.
He borrowed the phrase for the title of his 2000 autobiography.
Director Ron Howard’s film starring Ed Harris as Mr Kranz and Tom Hanks as mission commander Jim Lovell was based on Lovell’s 1994 autobiography, Lost Moon.
Actors Bill Paxton and Kevin Bacon portrayed Apollo 13 astronauts Fred Haise and Jack Swigert.
