Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success, died on ...

Robert “Ed” Smylie stands next to the command center used during the Apollo missions. Smylie, an MSU alumnus who played a ...

Still, Apollo 13 — carrying astronauts ... There are plenty of CO2 filters aboard Odyssey, but the filters fit a different size scrubber. NASA engineers work out a way to make one type of ...

Most of us are familiar with NASA's aborted moon landing mission in 1970 from watching director Ron Howard's excellent "Apollo 13 ... create a makeshift carbon dioxide scrubber to enable the ...