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Duct tape saved Apollo 17 moonbuggy, while on the moon.

Posted April 22, 2008 9:31 AM

From Boing Boing:

On the NASA website today, a tale in praise of the many merits of duct tape when one is on the moon with a busted buggy: The date was Dec. 11, 1972. Astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt had just landed their lunar module Challenger in a beautiful mountain-ringed valley named Taurus-Littrow on the edge of the Sea of Serenity.

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Re: Duct tape saved Apollo 17 moonbuggy, while on the moon.

04/22/2008 11:23 AM

I never leave Earth without it!

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