Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, ...

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.

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

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.

In the lunar module, which on Apollo 13 served as the crew's lifeboat, the scrubber was cylindrical. Initially, Smylie thought that the solution could be as simple as continuing to run 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 ...

The desk operator said the astronauts were retreating to the lunar excursion module ... to remove excess carbon dioxide from the Apollo 13 landing module cabin.Credit...NASA To survive, the ...

During the infamous Apollo 13 mission, he and a team of engineers in NASA’s Mission Control found the solution to the lunar module’s scrubbing system, which was starting to lose capacity to provide ...