Most of us are familiar with NASA's aborted moon landing mission in 1970 from watching director Ron Howard's excellent "Apollo 13" feature film that was released in 1995, and its dire declaration from Tom Hanks' Commander Jim Lovell, "Houston, we have a problem." The real words spoken were actually, "Houston, we've had a problem," but that's just Hollywood artistic license (and given that it's one of the best space movies of all time, we'll let them off).
And you've all watched Kevin Bacon portraying command module pilot Jack Swigert in the movie as he flipped a switch that stirred the oxygen tanks, accidentally sparking an explosion which led to gases venting out into outer space that would abort the landing. This required the crew to turn to Aquarius, their trusty lunar module that was to touch down at the Fra Mauro Highlands, as a temporary lifeboat until they could strategize on how to fix their ailing craft and get back home.
