54 years ago, NASA's Apollo XIII spacecraft took off to the Moon, which was to become the third moon landing for humanity. The mission was not completed, but the agency ended up classifying it as a “successful failure” The combined efforts of the ground team and crew managed to save the lives of the three astronauts who were on board.
The phrase "Houston, we have a problem" arose from the phrases of Swigert and Lovell from the 1995 film Apollo 13. The Apollo 13 command module finally landed in the Pacific Ocean six days after takeoff, with all the astronauts alive. The return trip was hard. The crew had to strictly ration food and water, as they only had the limited reserves of the lunar module. The cold they experienced during the rest of the mission made it virtually impossible for them to sleep. The ship had already passed a point in the journey from which they could not change course to return to Earth. They had to maneuver – orienting themselves thanks to the Sun – to obtain the gravitational impulse necessary for the return.