Apollo 10 “dress rehearsal” mission launched into orbit, to set up the Apollo 11 moon landing mission a month later.

The two find a working, floor-to-ceiling solar system orrery, historic spacesuits on display and, at the center of the main hall, an Apollo command module. "Is it real?" asks Ellie, almost in a ...

NASA launched the second abort test of the Apollo spacecraft. This uncrewed mission would demonstrate that the launch escape ...

Smylie, with his team, found the "way to make 'this' fit into the hole for 'this,' using nothing but 'that.'" It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to ...

GM equipped a van with a prototype fuel cell hydrogen power system in the 1960s. NASA was simultaneously using fuel cells to generate electricity on Apollo missions. The powertrain took up so much ...

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 explosion ...

Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie of Crossville, Tennessee, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success ... the environmental control system hose to the command ...