Wiktionary:Word of the day/2021/April 11

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Word of the day
for April 11
Houston, we have a problem phrase
  1. (US, humorous) Used to report that a (major) problem has occurred.

NASA’s Apollo 13 mission to the Moon launched on this day in 1970, but was aborted after an oxygen tank triggered an explosion. The spacecraft returned safely to Earth on April 17.

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