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

Houston weve had a problem Apollo 13 has become known as a successful ... 30minute documentary features interviews with Apollo 13 Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise as well as Flight Directors ...

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

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.

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

For the 1995 movie, the studio was determined to fashion an exact replica. But the task turned out to be more complicated than Apollo 13’s costume designers anticipated. Marta Kranz had used ...

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

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.

Robert “Ed” Smylie, died April 21 in Crossville, Tennessee. He was 95. Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of ...