{"id":10313,"date":"2012-04-27T22:01:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10313"},"modified":"2012-04-27T22:01:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T05:01:53","slug":"velcro-was-not-invented-by-nasa-for-the-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/velcro-was-not-invented-by-nasa-for-the-space-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Velcro was Not Invented by NASA for the Space Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/velcro-nasa-myth-fact.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10314\" title=\"velcro-nasa-myth-fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/velcro-nasa-myth-fact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/velcro-nasa-myth-fact.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/velcro-nasa-myth-fact-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myth: Velcro was invented by NASA for the space program. In fact, Velcro was already commercially available before being used by NASA. It did receive a huge boost in popularity after being used by NASA on parts of astronaut\u2019s space suits as well as used to allow astronaut\u2019s to store things along the walls of their space craft. Because of this, similar to Tang, it is a common misconception that Velcro was invented by or for NASA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/velcro-was-modeled-after-burrs-of-the-burdock-plant-that-stuck-to-velcros-inventors-pants-after-a-hunting-trip\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sources and More Interesting Velcro<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: Velcro was invented by NASA for the space program. In fact, Velcro was already commercially available before being used by NASA. It did receive a huge boost in popularity after being used by NASA on parts of astronaut\u2019s space suits as well as used to allow astronaut\u2019s to store things along the walls of their space craft. Because of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[267,1615,1112,2478,938,2481],"class_list":["post-10313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-facts","tag-myths","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-quick-myths","tag-velcro-facts","tag-velcro-invented"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10313\/revisions\/10317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}