Ed Smylie signs roll of Duct Tape for world collection

Ed Smylie, oversaw NASA's crew systems division in 1970 and was presented with GlobalSpec's Great Moments in Engineering Award in 2005 for his work in concocting a plan using plastic bags, cardboard and Duct Tape to save the Apollo 13 crew after their space craft was crippled by an explosion.

The problem was that the square CO2 filters from the command module needed to be used in the lunar module's round openings or the crew would die of CO2 poisoning!  Here is a picture of the solution to the problem. For more pictures and details of how Ed's team communicated this to the astronauts to build in space  Google  Ed Smylie  .

If you would like to help complete the World Duct Tape collection it's easy. Go to the second post on this blog for a list of countries I already have signed rolls from. Get your roll from a country not on the list and have it signed inside by a person living in that country, also have them write in the city and country the roll is from. I will be happy to reimburse you for the cost of the roll and postage to get it to me. Send along the story of how you got the roll and I'll post it on this blog.

Just mail it to Dick Anderson  11672 Center Hill Road Darlington, Wisconsin 53530 U.S.A. 
or e mail me at  richard640@centurytel.net if you have questions.  Thanks in Advance.