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Latest post Mon, Nov 22 2004 3:43 PM by Sofia101. 1 replies.
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Sofia101  +  56753 Mon, 22 Nov 04 03:43 PM
Hi
Does anyone knows were this phrase came from?
thanks
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MrPedantic  +  56778 Mon, 22 Nov 04 05:20 PM
Hello Sofia

I believe it was addressed by a member of the Apollo 13 crew (Lovell?) to ground control, on first discovering that something was wrong:

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/ap13acc.html

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