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How Duct Tape Saved Apollo 17's Moon Buggy

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Duct Tape by maz2331 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It just proves the old adage that "If you can't fix it with duct tape, then it's broken."

    1. Re:Duct Tape by CastrTroy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can we fix the broken CSS on the idle section with some duct tape?

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    2. Re:Duct Tape by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      "If you can't fix it with duct tape, then it's broken." You forget about WD40.

      If it moves and is not supposed to, use Duct Tape.
      If it doesn't move and is supposed to, use WD40.

      If both of those fail, then I guess you can savely assume it's broken.
    3. Re:Duct Tape by AragornSonOfArathorn · · Score: 5, Funny

      Duck Tape is only for taping ducks back together, or to each other. Why tape ducks together, you ask? Why not?

      Any other use is unsupported by the manufacturer.

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  2. ObRedGreen Ref by amccaf1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember, if the aliens don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

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  3. Re:Duct tape great for everything BUT ducts. by jafiwam · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sealing ammo cans with cloth tape. Though the origin of the name is a controversy, the term is originally "Duck Tape" because water is repelled by the outside surface, thus making it good for ammo cans. You can get the can wet, pull it out of the wet, and since the water rolled off, open the can right away without getting much water in the can. Or, so the story goes.

  4. photos by SuperBanana · · Score: 5, Informative

    The quality of the photographs from the moon always grabs me, and the duct-taped fender here is no exception.

    Medium-format sized negatives. Shitloads of light (large depth of field and high shutter speeds.) No atmosphere to bend light between subject and camera.

    Also, you've got really hard shadows because the light isn't diffused at all by an atmosphere.

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  5. Filthy astronauts. by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    They also used duct tape to fix the stereo, so they could keep driving their moon buggies through our neighborhoods at all hours of the night playing that theme from "2001" real loud.

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