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Ed Smylie obituary: engineer who saved the Apollo 13 crew. Nasa Mission Control employee who instructed astronauts on how to make use of duct tape after an explosion on the the lunar module, dies aged 95
Nasa Mission Control employee who instructed astronauts on how to make use of duct tape after an explosion on the the lunar module, dies aged 95
Ed Smylie, the Nasa engineer in charge of life support systems, was at home in Houston when he learnt of the emergency on the television news, and immediately rushed to his post at the city’s Mission Control. As depicted in the 1995 Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13, the hobbled spacecraft still had to survive its perilous re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, but it splashed down in the Pacific Ocean six harrowing days after its launch as millions watched on live television. The following day in Houston, President Nixon singled out Smylie and his deputy, James Correale, when he presented the Apollo 13 mission operations team with the Presidential Medal of Honour, America’s highest civilian award.
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