Word: velcro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...onetime race-car driver, showed a Levi-styled dinner jacket worn over a collarless shirt with a red bandanna knotted around the throat. Francis Toscani, who designs Botany-brand suits for a Philadelphia clothing manufacturer, aimed for versatility: the pocket panels of his fitted lounging coat were attached by Velcro strips and could be removed to convert the coat into a short Eisenhower jacket, presumably enabling the wearer to rush from boudoir to battlefield...
...space-NASA scientists provided Aldrin with a number of new body restraints. Borrowing from window-washer technology, they fitted him with two harnesses that could be hooked to rings strategically placed around the spacecraft. In addition, he carried two flatiron-shaped handholds that had their bottoms covered with Velcro, an adhesive-like nylon material. When Aldrin slapped his handholds against patches of Velcro plastered on the skin of both Gemini and Agena, they stuck until he pulled them free, providing additional anchors in space...
...next assignment took him back to Gemini's adapter section, where NASA scientists had installed a small work panel used by astronauts to practice typical space repair jobs. Aldrin fastened and unfastened fluid connectors, tightened and loosened bolts, disconnected electrical wiring, and tested and discarded patches of Velcro. After moving forward again to work on a similar but smaller panel, he returned to Gemini's cabin, barely winded...