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employed reusable heat shield tiles. Those were part of the space agency's Space Shuttle Orbiter Thermal Protection System ...

So, NASA needed to make sure that any damage to the capsule– even its heat shield, which is meant to take some damage – wouldn’t risk the lives of a future crew. Breaking space news ...

NASA's storied space shuttle program experienced extraordinary ... including detailed heat shield inspections using a sensor-equipped robotic arm. The crew also conducted heat shield repair ...

But the fragility of the heat shield left NASA no alternative. Shuttle docked with ISS in 2011. With the exception of the mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, every Shuttle that flew ...

From 2005 until 2011, a Space Shuttle would have to perform a backflip ... in which damage to the heat shield during launch led to the Shuttle’s destruction on re-entry. During the steady ...

While the Starship is lost, the mission's first-stage booster successfully returned to the launch tower, where it was caught ...

Plans were well underway to launch the Space Shuttle at Vandenberg in the ... killing all seven astronauts on board due to a heat shield damaged during liftoff. After the Challenger disaster ...