Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95 - The New York Times

Robert "Ed" Smylie, the NASA official who saved the Apollo 13 crew in 1970, has died at 95. He cobbled together an apparatus made of cardboard, plastic bags and duct tape after an explosion crippled the spacecraft as it sped toward the moon. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/science/space/ed-smylie-dead.html