Editing Duct tape (section)

=== Spaceflight ===
{{quote|Interviewer: And duct tape works in the vacuum of space as well as it does here?<br>
Walker: Oh, yes. Yes, it does. It sticks.|[[Charles D. Walker]], describing duct tape's use on [[STS-51-D]]<ref name="walker20050414">{{cite interview |title=Oral History Transcript |date=14 April 2005 |url=https://historycollection.jsc.nasa.gov/JSCHistoryPortal/history/oral_histories/WalkerCD/WalkerCD_4-14-05.htm | last=Walker |first=Charles D. |interviewer=Johnson, Sandra |work=NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project}}</ref>}}

According to [[NASA]] engineer Jerry Woodfill duct tape had been stowed on board every mission since early in the [[Gemini program]].<ref name=Atkinson2010>{{Citation
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 |year        = 2010
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NASA engineers and astronauts have used duct tape in their work, including in some emergency situations. One such usage occurred in 1970 when Woodfill was working in Mission Control, when the square [[carbon dioxide]] filters from [[Apollo 13]]'s failed command module had to be modified to fit round receptacles in the [[lunar module]], which was being used as a lifeboat after an explosion en route to the Moon. A workaround used duct tape and other items on board Apollo 13, with the ground crew relaying instructions to the flight crew. The lunar module's CO<sub>2</sub> scrubbers started working again, saving the lives of the three [[astronaut]]s on board.

Ed Smylie, who designed the scrubber modification in just two days, said later that he knew the problem was solvable when it was confirmed that duct tape was on the spacecraft: "I felt like we were home free," he said in 2005. "One thing a Southern boy will never say is, 'I don't think duct tape will fix it.{{'"}}<ref>[http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/space/3139248 Associated Press article] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050420040225/http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/space/3139248 |date=2005-04-20 }}, referring to the use of duct tape on Apollo 13.</ref>

Duct tape, referred to as "...good old-fashioned American gray tape..."<ref>[https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/21apr_ducttape/ "Moondust and Duct Tape"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816001757/http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2008/21apr_ducttape/ |date=2011-08-16 }}, April 21, 2008, science.nasa.gov</ref> was used by the [[Apollo 17]] astronauts on the Moon to improvise a repair to a damaged [[Fender (vehicle)|fender]] on the [[Lunar Roving Vehicle|lunar rover]], preventing possible damage from the spray of [[lunar dust]] as they drove.<ref>{{Cite APOD|date=17 April 2004 |title=Lunar Dust and Duct Tape |access-date=2009-07-21}}</ref>