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NASA Is Investigating Boeing Starliner's "In-Flight Anomalies"
NASA and Boeing are still working to get the aerospace giant's plagued Starliner spacecraft back on the ground. It's been ...
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NASA’s Space Tech That Shaped the Cars You’re Driving Today
The space shuttle’s thermal protection system (TPS) consisted of tiles and blankets that, together, regulated its temperature when the vessel was on its way home, as well as when its cargo bay ...
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Force of Impact
When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003 ... blasting out a gaping hole in the panels that normally provide thermal protection during reentry. In this interactive, follow in the ...
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STS-400 – Remembering Endeavour’s first responder role during…
Ten years ago, the crew of Shuttle Atlantis was in the final ... all aimed at mitigating the threats of damage to the Thermal Protection System (TPS) on the orbiter. While engineers successfully ...