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When Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell said, "Houston, we've had a problem," it was Ed Smylie who had the solution. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor has the story after Smylie's death at 95.
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Video by MSU Films Smylie earned bachelor’s and master ... he switched careers from aviation to the space program. During the infamous Apollo 13 mission, he and a team of engineers in NASA’s Mission ...
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.