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 ...
We all know that duct tape is a versatile tool. For one example, just consider the Apollo 13 mission, when NASA astronauts failed in their attempt to land on the moon, but NASA engineers successfully ...
Some hacks are so great that when you die you receive the rare honor of both an obituary in the New York Times and an in memoriam article at Hackaday. The recently deceased, [Ed Smylie], was a NASA ...