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

Kontaratos was one of the unsung heroes of NASA, as he was the engineer responsible for helping save the crew of the Apollo ...

The movie “Apollo 13,” which starred Tom Hanks as Lovell ... It popularized a phrase - “Houston, we have a problem” - that the astronauts did not in fact utter when the oxygen tank ...

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

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.

"If you read the book and look at the movie ["Apollo 13"], it sounds like I did all ... to scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air, which the astronauts built using the cube-shaped command module ...

One of the most impressive subplots of the Tom Hanks movie “Apollo 13,” a film now 30 years old if you can believe that, was the way NASA engineers literally figured out how to fit a square peg into a ...

One of the most impressive subplots of the Tom Hanks movie “Apollo 13,” a film now 30 years old if you can believe that, was the way NASA engineers literally figured out how to fit a square peg into a ...