NASA is now offering museums a choice of freeze-dried and heat-resistant artifacts for their space shuttle-themed displays. NASA expanded its offer of surplus astronaut food and space shuttle heat shield tiles that had earlier been open to schools only.
Space Shuttle - Heat shield – Ablators – Defects - Non-destructive evaluationResults are presented from an investigation to determine the effects of fabrication-induced defects on the performance of an ablative heat shield material in a simulated space shuttle reentry environment. Non-destructive ...
This display features a genuine piece of a space shuttle heat-shield tile. These tiles cover the underbelly and various surfaces of the space shuttle vehicle to protect it from the destructive heat of passage through the Earth's atmosphere. Made of a ceramic composite material, they are very ...
HOUSTON – Two shuttle astronauts went through the motions of an orbiter heat shield repair while perched at the end of an extra-long robotic arm during a Saturday spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS).
HOUSTON – NASA engineers have cleared the space shuttle Atlantis’ heat shield of any concern pending one last inspection by the orbiter’s six-astronaut crew, mission managers said Tuesday.
Emily Carney recalls his life from the perspective of seeing his first shuttle launch.Monday, March 4, 2024 The phases of lunar lander success, revisited Last week Intuitive Machines became the first company to land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon, but the spacecraft ended up on ...
The crew cabin of Space Shuttle Challenger is visible near the end of the smoke plume at the upper center of this photograph, still climbing at supersonic speed. (NASA) I watched this terrible tragedy as it happened, live on television. I will never forget. ...
If there is a failure or degradation of three nominal liquid fuel engines, the Shuttle would head out to sea, jettison the solids, and come back for a landing airplane-style at the runway near the launch site. The manned exploration of the lunar surface will create new problems for space ...
The design goal of the shuttle's DPS is fail-operational/fail-safe reliability. After a single failure, the shuttle can still continue the mission. After two failures, it can still land safely. The four general-purpose computers operate essentially in lockstep, checking each other. If one comp...
The hatches between the two spacecraft were opened at couple of hours later, giving Mission Control their first television views of Discovery's crew since the astronauts launch. The shuttle's antenna failure had prevented such broadcasts. "The crew made it look easy, so that all went well,"...