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Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew with Duct Tape, Dies at 95

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Ed Smylie was a steely-eyed missile man.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/steely-eyed_missile_man

If you ever have the opportunity, visit the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. They have the actual Apollo 13 Command Module on display.

8 months agoby AshleyGrant

Best startup engineers ever.

As part of a race to do doing something previously impossible, they built the MVP, and when some random showstopper happened, they worked creatively within tight constraints, to succeed.

8 months agoby neilv

https://archive.today/lhIn7

https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/robert-ed-s...

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist...

https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2025/04/msu-remembe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_13_Mailbox_at_Miss...

8 months agoby toomuchtodo

Clip of an interview with Ed Smylie by the Smithsonian Channel

How Duct Tape Saved the Lives of the Apollo 13 Crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeEM_IBUv70

8 months agoby somethoughts

https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist...

8 months agoby alex1138

The one time when using duct tape on a duct was okay.

8 months agoby lupusreal

> Duct Tape

NASA says gray tape.

You'll find some documents say duct tape, but here it was gray, transcript -

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/...

"space-age baling wire" I think is velcro

8 months agoby aaron695