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 ... oxygen tank had exploded, ...

For one example, just consider the Apollo 13 ... tank exploded. The ship was stable and none of the three men on board were hurt, but they were forced to use the lunar expedition module, which ...

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, 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 ... exploded, damaging the command module ...

An oxygen tank had exploded, crippling the spacecraft’s command module. Smylie ... in Ron Howard’s 1995 blockbuster film, “Apollo 13,” starring Tom Hanks as Lovell, Kevin Bacon as Swigert ...

(Credit: NASA) S69-34327 (13 May 1969) — Aerial, high-angle, view of the Apollo 10 (Spacecraft 106/Lunar Module 4/Saturn 505) space vehicle at Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center ...

On Thursday, NASA announced that it was working with Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, to understand a “new pressure signature” in a segment of the Zvezda service module. As a result, NASA and Axiom ...

Brad Pitt’s career didn’t shape itself through chance or convenience. It took decisions that went against the grain and choices that often puzzled people in the industry. He was not the kind ...

The SpaceX launch of four private astronauts has been delayed again. The Ax-4 mission to the International Space Station (ISS ...