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

The National Air and Space Museum gets closer to fully completing the most extensive renovation since its founding.

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

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

Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

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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.

Ed Smylie was 95. Apollo 13 was launched 55 years ago this month and would have been the third crewed lunar landing. However, an oxygen tank explosion in the service module forced the mission to ...

Robert ‘Ed’ Smylie was born in Lincoln County, best known of his role in solving the C02 scrubbers issue during the Apollo 13 mission. He was part of the team finding a solution when the Lunar module ...