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

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

Kontaratos was one of the unsung heroes of NASA, as he was the engineer responsible for helping save the crew of the Apollo ...

When NASA astronauts on Apollo 13 failed in their attempt to land on the moon, NASA engineers were successful in bringing ...

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.

After the triumph of Apollo 11, the Apollo Program faced fading support and a life-threatening crisis aboard Apollo 13. This is the story of survival and resilience.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie of Crossville, Tennessee, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success, died Monday [April 21]. Born in Lincoln ...

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 ...

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 ...