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Jake Rosen <\/strong>and Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present 11 Things You Might Not Know About\u00a0 Apollo 13<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 2. Steven Spielberg Made a Crucial Suggestion.<\/strong> Howard\u2019s test shooting went well enough\u2014and his producer, Todd Hallowell, was persistent enough\u2014that NASA granted permission for a crew to film while on board the plane. That meant that …<\/p>\n 9. \u201cHouston, We Have a Problem\u201d Was Not the Exact Quote.<\/strong> 12. The Checklist Fetched $388,375 at Auction.<\/strong> Jake Rosen and Mental_Floss present 11 Things You Might Not Know About\u00a0 Apollo 13.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,72,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13196,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13063\/revisions\/13196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nTo simulate the weightlessness inside the module, Howard and his crew were contemplating using wires and harnesses, a logistical decision that would\u2019ve had his cast suspended like marionettes for months of shooting. Instead, Spielberg (a friend of Howard\u2019s and frequent collaborator with Hanks) suggested that he look into the KC-135, a NASA-owned airplane that\u2019s able to simulate zero gravity by maneuvering 45 degrees up and then plummeting.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the most popular lines in culture, Lovell\u2019s grim delivery of his module\u2019s malfunctions to Mission Control was not quoted word for word in the film. In reality, NASA received the message, \u201cHouston, I believe we\u2019ve had a problem,\u201d not, \u201cHouston, we have a problem.\u201d (Maybe present tense made it more impactful.) Filmmakers also decided to have Hanks\u2019 Lovell deliver the line; in fact, it was Swigert who first said it, though Lovell repeated it immediately as \u201cHouston, we\u2019ve had a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nBecause it was shown so prominently in the feature film, Jim Lovell\u2019s original checklist book filled with equations and other notes addressing their mission’s issues sold for $388,375 in a November 2011 auction. But the purchase was held up when NASA inquired whether Lovell actually owned the artifact outright. In 2012, President Obama signed a bill into law clarifying that astronauts had ownership of such materials.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"