He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned ...

Ed Smylie, who has died aged 95, was an American engineer who led the team at Nasa which saved the imperiled crew of the ...

He and his NASA colleagues were credited with jury-rigging a carbon dioxide filter that allowed the astronauts to breathe as ...

It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, when Ed Smylie realized they had to do something about the carbon dioxide.

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 explosion ...

NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury rig a solution for scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air in the Apollo 13 lunar module.

Ed Smylie, who has died aged 95, was an American engineer who led the team at Nasa which saved the imperiled crew of the crippled US moon ship Apollo 13 from suffocating in their own exhaled ...

Robert "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 ...