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Amongst the users of Velcro were the first men on the moon: they used it on their space suits and to fix objects to walls so that they didn't float away in weightless space#Although de Mestral is best known for the invention of Velcro, he was also the first man to propose the idea of fiber optics and the plastic shotgun cartridge. One of his later inventions was a commercially-successful asparagus peeler#De Mestral suffered from poor health and he had to take medicines regularly. To avoid making mistakes he invented a compartmentalized box to hold his medicine, which prevented him from mixing them up and reminded him of those he had already taken#On the supersonic airplane Concorde, the heat-absorbing blanket between the inner and outer fuselage that maintains the correct temperature inside the plane is held in place with Velcro#Velcro is used extensively by the military - and not only in clothing. It is used, for example, on inflatable dinghies, ejector seats and distress beacon buoys#Velcro has spawned a bizarre sport called barflying. Participants don a suit of Velcro hooks and launch themselves from a trampoline at a wall of Velcro eyes. The idea is too land on the wall upside down, as high up as possible
