RIP to a hero who leapt into the breach not with a sword but with his intellect, his education and with singular purpose - we will bring them home.
Reposted from The New York Times
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.

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