On This Day: 'Houston, we've had a problem' On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 en route to a planned moon landing and one of the three astronauts aboard, Jack Swigert, the command module pilot, famously said, "Houston, we've had a problem." By (0) Crewmembers of the Apollo 13 mission step aboard the USS Iwo Jima. On April 13, 1970, an oxygen tank exploded aboard Apollo 13 en route to a planned moon landing. File Photo courtesy of NASA Phil Spector listens to comments by the prosecutor as he appears for a pretrial hearing at the Los Angeles Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles October 27, 2005. On April 13, 2009, the music producer was found guilty of second-degree murder by a Los Angeles jury in his second trial for the 2003 slaying of Lana Clarkson, an actress and club hostess. He was sentenced to 19 years-to-life in prison. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo