Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, ...

Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter ...

Rosenwald Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an ...

Ed Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo ... a spacesuit hose and a roll ...

Smylie always played down his ingenuity and his role in saving the Apollo 13 crew. "It was pretty straightforward, even though we got a lot of publicity for it and Nixon even mentioned our names ...

A photo provided by Mississippi State University shows NASA engineer Robert “Ed” Smylie with a command module used during the Apollo space missions ... cardboard from the cover of the flight plan, a ...

(AP) — An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance ... next year under NASA’s Artemis program, the successor to Apollo. Men still ...