Apollo 11 ticker-tape parade in 1969. Not much is different about confetti and ticker tape. They are both small pieces of paper, and for parades, thrown out from above as an "extra" dab of festivity.

Millions of persons cheered the three Apollo 11 astronauts as they motorcaded through great showers of ticker tape along the routes ... explorers during their parade, ceremonies at City Hall ...

Smylie always played down his ingenuity and his role in saving the Apollo 13 crew. "It was pretty straightforward, even though we got a lot of publicity for it and Nixon even mentioned our names ...

Ed Smylie, who became a quiet hero of the space age in 1970 when he and his fellow NASA engineers jury-rigged an air filter that kept the three Apollo 13 astronauts alive after an onboard ...

Rosenwald 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 ...

Robert “Ed” Smylie, died April 21 in Crossville, Tennessee. He was 95. Robert “Ed” Smylie, the NASA official who led a team of engineers that cobbled together an apparatus made of ...