"Houston, we've had a problem": second only to "one giant leap for mankind", the statement has become the most famous, and misquoted, utterance in space travel history. Today marks fifty years since the launch of the ill-fated Apollo 13 craft. Bound for the moon, an onboard explosion two days into the mission placed the crew in grave peril. From then on, the mission was to get back to Earth alive.⁠ See gettyarchive to watch the drama of Apollo 13 unfold, in space and at home, in contemporary footage of the time.⁠ Here, Marilyn Lovell, the wife of mission commander James A. Lovell, listens in their home to live reporting of the situation, as son Jeffrey plays with airplane.⁠ For more coverage, follow our bio link.⁠ 📷: Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images | April 1970 | life | #GettyImages25 #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive⁠ ⁠ #apollo13 #houstonwehaveaproblem #spacerace #spacetravel #apollospaceprogram #spaceprogram #nasa #jameslovell #astronaut #americanhistory #1970 ...