What American test pilot born August 30, 1931 erroneously made the famous "Houston, we have a problem" quote?
Houston, we have a problem "Houston, we have a problem" is a popular but erroneous quote from the radio communications between the Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert and the NASA Mission Control Center ("Houston") during the Apollo 13 spaceflight, as the astronauts communicated their discovery of the explosion that crippled their spacecraft. The erroneous wording was popularized by the 1995 film "Apollo 13", a dramatization of the Apollo 13 mission, in which actor Tom Hanks, portraying Mission Commander Jim Lovell, uses that wording, which became one of the film's taglines.
Butt Report The Butt Report, released on 18 August 1941, was a report prepared during World War II, revealing the widespread failure of bombers to deliver their payloads to the correct target.