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

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

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

He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned ...

Stefan Osdene found astronaut Neil Armstrong's gold Omega Speedmaster watch for sale at a coin shop in Ohio. The watch ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

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 ...

STARKVILLE – Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie of Crossville, Tennessee, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success, died April 21. Born in Lincoln ...