Robert "Ed" Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape that saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970 after an ...

For more than 50 years, NASA astronauts have relied on duct tape as a fix-it-all for everything from a lunar rover on the moon to an air leak on board the International Space Station. Up until now, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission, a panoramic high-definition image of astronaut Fred Haise napping in the “lifeboat” Lunar Module has been produced. The ill-fated mission ...