" Houston, we have a problem "

John Swigert, Jr. and James Lovell who, with Fred Haise Jr., made up the crew of the US's Apollo 13 moon flight used almost this phrase to report a major technical problem back to their Houston base.

Swigert: 'Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here.'

Duke: 'This is Houston. Say again please.'

Lovell: 'Houston, we've had a problem.

We've had a main B bus undervolt.'

"It is the year 2001. You are in a weightless condition aboard the spaceliner Orion, on the first leg of your journey from Earth to the Moon." So began the "liner notes" on the back of the MGM soundtrack album for the remarkable 1968 motion picture 2001: A Space Odyssey, produced by Stanley Kubrick and based upon the science fiction story The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke. The album's written narrative envisioned a routine stop aboard Space Station Five, then a jaunt aboard the moon shuttle Aries. "You are now on Clavius—the permanent colony on the Moon."

Mondflugatlas 14, 15, 16 illustrated

Have a look at my latest press clippings -

guess I'm doin' good in Germany -

or is this the austrian language

I've heard of ??!!