Ed Smylie, the NASA engineer who helped save the lives of the Apollo 13 crew, has died at 95. In dramatic moments made famous ...

to the Apollo 13 mission operations team, President Richard M. Nixon made special mention of Mr. Smylie, who was head of the crew systems division, and his deputy, James V. Correale.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

So Smylie's crew had to determine how to connect the filter using only items already on board. Unlike the dramatic moment in the movie Apollo 13 when someone dumps duplicates of all the items onto ...

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.