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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 ...

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 ...