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Mansfield man was big part of Apollo 13 rescue effort
MANSFIELD -- Sunday was the 35th anniversary of the return of Apollo 13 to earth and GlobalSpec, a New York-based company, arranged to honor the engineers who got the damaged spacecraft back safely.
The engineers, flight controllers and astronauts involved were expected for a ceremony at the Space Center in Houston on Tuesday.
But somebody forgot to invite Milojko "Mike'' Vucelic of Mansfield.
Vucelic, 75, an owner of Ideal Electric, was one of those engineers working in Mission Control when Apollo 13 and its astronaut crew of Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert ran into trouble.
The engineers came up with a very basic solution that used plastic bags, cardboard and duct tape to provide the spacecraft's crew with clean air to breathe after their ship was crippled by an explosion. A buildup of carbon dioxide was the major concern.
"We all kept asking what our options were. Gene Kranz, our main man, kept saying, 'Failure is not an option,' " Vucelic said. "The only materials we could use to solve the problem were aboard the spacecraft. There were so many things we were trying to jury-rig that day. I will never forget it.''
"It was actually a fair bit of very, very quick engineering work that they had to radio up," said John Schneiter, president of GlobalSpec. "They had to make it right the first time. It had to work and son of a gun, it did.''
Ed Smylie, an aerospace consultant, was, like Vucelic, on the scene. He said the engineers, using materials they knew were aboard the spacecraft, used home-type materials including duct tape to build a mock-up system that would provide the crew with clean air until they could reach earth. Then they radioed instruction to the astronauts on how to build that system.
Smylie said that turned out to be one of the space program's proudest moments.
"What could have been a horrible disaster turned out to be a great achievement,'' he said.
Vucelic, a key member of the team that came up with the solutions, was awarded a presidential Medal of Freedom from then President Richard Nixon and became a hero in his homeland of Yugoslavia for the work he did that day.
But nobody remembered to call him this time.
"They always forget about guys in Ohio,'' Vucelic said.
Originally published April 20, 2005