UA Civil Engineering Professor Tribikam Kundu is designing a way to test the thermal-protection tiles on a re-useable space vehicle to prevent accidents on the ground and during re-entry into the ...

NASA is now offering museums a choice of freeze-dried and heat-resistant artifacts for their space shuttle-themed displays. The space agency on Tuesday (Sept. 4) expanded its offer of surplus space ...

When SpaceX first showed off the thermal tiles on its Starship spacecraft that should keep it safe when re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere towards the loving embrace of the chopsticks on the launch ...

NASA showed off its current ideas for in-flight repair of space shuttle tiles this week, a demonstration that went a long way toward finally explaining why the space agency canceled its first tile ...

NASA has developed a new three-dimensional laser scanner to find cracks and other damage amidst the thousands of ceramic tiles that protect space shuttles from the heat on re-entry. Smaller and faster ...

It took forever to glue on the thermal tiles that shielded the space shuttle from the scorching heat of reentry -- nearly two man-years of work for every flight -- and the glue dried so fast that ...

IN 1981, DEVELOPMENT OF INSULATING TILES CONTRIBUTED TO DELAYS IN THE FIRST SHUTTLE LAUNCH, and last year, the difficulty of repairing tiles raised the world’s anxiety about the shuttle’s most recent ...

WASHINGTON — As the Space Shuttle Program nears retirement, NASA is looking for ways to preserve the program’s history and inspire the next generation of space explorers, scientists and engineers.

Click to open image viewer. Black reusable insulation tiles shielded the entire underside of the Space Shuttle orbiter, as well as portions of the vertical tail, wings, and forward and aft fuselage ...