Quote of the Day

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"I felt like we were home free. One thing a Southern boy will never say is 'I don't think duct tape will fix it.'"

--- Ed Smylie, Crew Systems manager for the Apollo 13 flight, on his relief upon discovering that duct tape was available to the astronauts. Duct tape was one of the components ground engineers used to modify some CO2 scrubbers to keep the astronauts alive.