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aaron695 ◴[] No.44006410[source]
> Duct Tape

NASA says gray tape.

You'll find some documents say duct tape, but here it was gray, transcript -

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/static/history/alsj/...

"space-age baling wire" I think is velcro

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1. kube-system ◴[] No.44007116[source]
Yes, that's what color the duct tape was. Gray.

"good old-fashioned American gray tape"

https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/duct-tape-auto-...

The tape and its many varieties have many names. "Duct tape" is commonly used today, but was not as common then, and wasn't in the dictionary until part way through the Apollo program.