Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an oxygen tank explosion, has died. He was 97.

Houston, we’ve had a problem. ” Those words, from astronaut James Lovell to NASA, gripped the world for four days in 1970 as astronauts on Apollo 13 worked furiously to get back to earth after an oxygen tank exploded.

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