Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. https://nyti.ms/3Sbusb3
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Rest in peace to a quiet genius who proved that ingenuity is rocket science.
What a brilliant and courageous man you are. 🩷
RIP Sir
I sure hope he got Citizens Medal of Honor or something comparable before he passed! 😢
NATIONAL TREASURE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibjkqNbj23M
The kind of person who has made our government work for us for so many years.
The kind of person who DOGE and Trump and Vought want you to believe is somehow the enemy of the people.
We need more folks like Ed.
Builders, not breakers.
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a life well lived. RIP
Get your facts straight!!!
https://allthatsinteresting.com/judith-love-cohen#:~:text=Judith%20Love%20Cohen%27s%20work%20with%20NASA%20helped%20bring%20the%20Apollo%2013%20astronauts%20home%20after%20they%20suddenly%20lost%20power%20in%20space.
Rest in peace, you earned it.
Of course DOGE would have fired him so thankfully he served across bipartisan administrations that weren't filled with incompetent morons.
All of the men back then at NASA were fucking geniuses...hard pressed to find ANY there now.
RIP, Mr Smylie. ❤️🩹
Mr. Smylie defied the odds and the expectations.
BIG APPLAUSE, once again, for Ed Smylie!
RIP - Robert Smylie