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How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 22, 2008 @04:21AM from the these-pictures-clearly-faked dept.

Ant points out a story spotted on Boing Boing in which NASA "shares a story that turns back the clock 36 years to reveal the "key roll of duct tape in the Apollo program." The quality of the photographs from the moon always grabs me, and the duct-taped fender here is no exception.

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If at first you don't succeed... by SCHecklerX · 2008-04-22 05:00 · Score: 1, Offtopic

...use more duct tape!

-- Red Green
Slow news day? by DerekLyons · 2008-04-22 05:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Slow news day on BoingBoing and/or Slashdot? This is a pretty well known piece of history.