He and his team of NASA engineers jumped into action to help three astronauts bound for the moon. His quick thinking earned ...

It was about one in the morning, four hours after an explosion tore through the Apollo 13 spacecraft on its way to the moon, when Ed Smylie realized they had to do something about the carbon dioxide.

When Apollo 13 astronaut Jim Lovell said, "Houston, we've had a problem," it was Ed Smylie who had the solution. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor has the story after Smylie's death at 95.

NASA crew systems chief Ed Smylie shows the work that he and his team did in April 1970 to jury rig a solution for scrubbing carbon dioxide from the air in the Apollo 13 lunar module.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Robert Edwin “Ed” Smylie of Crossville, Tennessee, a Mississippi State alumnus who played a pivotal role in the Apollo 13 mission’s success, died Monday [April 21]. Born in Lincoln ...

State Superintendent Tony Sanders says that some students have been “misclassified” as not proficient even though they have ...

If you’ve seen Tom Hanks’ Apollo 13, you surely remember the scene where a group of guys dump a bunch of junk onto a table to ...

An Orange County Schools teacher was recently named the first-ever Outstanding Holocaust Educator of the Year.

Australian PGA champion Elvis Smylie made an impressive start to his second career major as he signed off on a -1 round of 70. The leftie from the Gold Coast, who is the son of Australian tennis great ...