It’s a great story
It’s a great story
Some hacks are legendary. This hack had to be envisioned, executed, tested, documented then relayed in perfect detail to humans on a tin can returning from the moon to make sure they could all survive the trip back. It then had to be understood and executed by those that were given the instructions.
What are we, maybe 10 more years from the blacks claiming they invented space travel and flight?
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>Some hacks are so great that when you die you receive the rare honor of both an obituary in the New York Times and an in memoriam article at Hackaday. The recently deceased, Ed Smylie, was a NASA engineer leading the effort to save the crew of Apollo 13 with a makeshift gas conduit made from plastic bags and duct tape back in the year 1970. Ed died recently, on April 21, in Crossville, Tennessee, at the age of 95. This particular hack, another in the long and storied history of duct tape, literally required putting a square peg in a round hole. After an explosion on the Apollo 13 command module the astronauts needed to escape on the lunar excursion module. But the lunar module was only designed to support two people, not three.
Some hacks are legendary. This hack had to be envisioned, executed, tested, documented then relayed in perfect detail to humans on a tin can returning from the moon to make sure they could all survive the trip back. It then had to be understood and executed by those that were given the instructions.
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What are we, maybe 10 more years from the blacks claiming they invented space travel and flight?
Archive: https://archive.today/n9yfN
From the post:
>>Some hacks are so great that when you die you receive the rare honor of both an obituary in the New York Times and an in memoriam article at Hackaday.
The recently deceased, Ed Smylie, was a NASA engineer leading the effort to save the crew of Apollo 13 with a makeshift gas conduit made from plastic bags and duct tape back in the year 1970. Ed died recently, on April 21, in Crossville, Tennessee, at the age of 95.
This particular hack, another in the long and storied history of duct tape, literally required putting a square peg in a round hole. After an explosion on the Apollo 13 command module the astronauts needed to escape on the lunar excursion module. But the lunar module was only designed to support two people, not three.
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