Some say that Velcro was invented by NASA for
the space program. Not true, 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’s space
suits as well as used to allow astronaut’s 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.