After the triumph of Apollo 11, the future of lunar exploration faded. But when Apollo 13 launched, the mission turned into a ...

Those who planned, ran and piloted the Apollo Program will be venerated Saturday at the San Diego Air & Space Museum for the ...

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 ...

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 that kept the three Apollo 13 astronauts alive after an onboard ...

Brad Pitt broke away from his heartthrob image by rejecting Apollo 13 for David Fincher’s dark thriller Seven, redefining his Hollywood trajectory.

Ed Smylie, the NASA engineer who helped save the lives of the Apollo 13 crew, has died at 95. In dramatic moments made famous by the 1995 Academy Award-winning movie of the same name, Smylie and his ...

Awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to the Apollo 13 mission operations team, President Richard M. Nixon made special mention of Smylie, who was head ...

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 ...

We all know that duct tape is a versatile tool. For one example, just consider the Apollo 13 mission, when NASA astronauts failed in their attempt to land on the moon, but NASA engineers ...

Robert “Ed” Smylie, died April 21 in Crossville, Tennessee. He was 95. Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of ...

The recently deceased, [Ed Smylie], was a NASA engineer leading the effort to save the crew of Apollo 13 with a makeshift gas conduit made from plastic bags and duct tape back in the year 1970.

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 ...