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

by sohkamyung on 5/16/25, 2:03 PM with 35 comments

• by delichon on 5/16/25, 5:16 PM

  Ed Smylie was a steely-eyed missile man.

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

• by AshleyGrant on 5/16/25, 3:33 PM

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

• by neilv on 5/16/25, 4:25 PM

  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.

• by toomuchtodo on 5/16/25, 2:07 PM

  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...

• by somethoughts on 5/16/25, 6:27 PM

  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

• by alex1138 on 5/16/25, 3:49 PM

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

• by lupusreal on 5/16/25, 4:27 PM

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

• by aaron695 on 5/16/25, 3:08 PM

  > 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