Moondust and Duct Tape

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Apollo 17 moonbuggy fender repaired with duct tape.
Apollo 17 moonbuggy fender repaired with duct tape.

At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same way. The sound of gray tape being torn from rolls practically filled the race course as dozens of college and high school student engineers busily assembled and repaired their homemade moonbuggies.


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