If you ever have the opportunity, visit the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. They have the actual Apollo 13 Command Module on display.
Best startup engineers ever.
As part of a race to do doing something previously impossible, they built the MVP, and when some random showstopper happened, they worked creatively within tight constraints, to succeed.
https://airandspace.si.edu/support/wall-of-honor/robert-ed-s...
https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/hist...
https://www.msstate.edu/newsroom/article/2025/04/msu-remembe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo_13_Mailbox_at_Miss...
Clip of an interview with Ed Smylie by the Smithsonian Channel
How Duct Tape Saved the Lives of the Apollo 13 Crew
The one time when using duct tape on a duct was okay.
> Duct Tape
NASA says gray tape.
You'll find some documents say duct tape, but here it was gray, transcript -
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/...
"space-age baling wire" I think is velcro
Ed Smylie was a steely-eyed missile man.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/steely-eyed_missile_man