Description 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 ...
NASA on Tuesday (Sept. 4) expanded its offer of surplus space food and space shuttle heat shield tiles, which had earlier been open only to educational organizations. Now, museums located across the nation can request the same pieces of space history that U.S. schools and universities have ...
Summary Sample tiles of Space Shuttle reusable surface insulation (RSI) and fibrous refractory composite insulation (FRCI) have been alternately exposed to simulated mission heating and the Kennedy Space Center launch-pad environment for up to 50 cycles. The two types of tiles were coated with an ...
The space agency on Tuesday (Sept. 4) expanded its offer of surplus space food and space shuttle heat shield tiles, which had earlier been open only to educational organizations. Now, museums located across the nation can request the same pieces of space history that U.S. schools and univers...
Resulting damage could breach theorbiter's heat shield, endangering the spaceship and the astronauts aboard it. The presence of twoprotruding pieces of fabric - so-called "gap fillers" between tileson the belly of the shuttle - prompted NASA to order an emergency spacewalkduring the agency's ...
Museums in New York and California are offering opportunities to sponsor their permanent space shuttle display. (collectSPACE)May 9, 2012 — The New York and Los Angeles homes for two of NASA's space shuttles want to put your name in lights — actually on heatshield tiles and stars — in...
That would have to be STS-27 in 1988. AfterAtlantis’ liftoff, debris shed from the right booster’s nose cap struck the orbiter and damaged hundreds of heat-shield tiles. In orbit, mission control advised the crew to use the robot arm’s TV camera to examine the shuttle’s right side...
at the ready at every launch after that. If history repeated itself and a shuttle's heat-shield tiles were damaged the way Columbia's were, the crew could take refuge on the space station until the second shuttle could come to their rescue. The emergency flights would have four astr...
Enterprise's underbelly, which is lined with foam replicas of the space-worthy shuttles' heat shield tiles, is just 10 feet above the floor. A raised platform at the front of the vehicle allows guests to come nose-to-nose with the Enterprise, as well as look into its crew cabin's ...
The astronauts aboard the space shuttle Endeavour performed an intensive scan of their orbiter's sensitive heat shield tiles today to make sure they didn't incur any damage during liftoff. Endeavour launched toward the space station yesterday (May 16) from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canavera...