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The tiles were discarded fairly early. Replaced by ‘blankets’ that minimized interstitial gaps.
Fun fact. Coors, the folks in Colorado that make beer. They make the ceramic re-entry vehicle shields for our nuclear weapons. You can tour the brewery. They are a little stricter about visitors at the ceramics plant.
I’ve been on the teams that quantified the neutron degradation of those ceramics on the Minute Man III ICBM’s. You wouldn’t believe how small those devices actually are.
Fun fact:
Hillary’s vagina is made of the same material.
Did you notice the people there were careful to only touch the edges of the cubes? The parts of the surface NOT emitting light?
There’s a reason for that. Do you know what it is?
Lowell : Because the heated molecules on the corners are more exposed to Oxygen ???
The things we’re capable of that we do’nt know as Private Citizens , must be unbeleiveable !
If it were dissipating heat no one could touch it. It is insulating.
Mine was blue.
@loco
You owe me a new PC. It was a full spew.
I actually got to see the back room operations at NASA when they were “returning to flight mode” on the STS program. They had a mock up of the “leading Edge of the shuttle wing”that had holes in the tiles bc of the frozen foam and ice chunks. They knew of this problem, well in advance.. I got to play around with some of the tiles, simply amazing.., what impressed me the most, was the size of the tiles, but almost weightless, think of a Kleenex box size and the weight of 1-2., cotton balls in contrast.. the surface of these tiles were as fragile as an hard boiled eggshell.. , just amazing..
FIGHT BACK WITH DAVID HOROWITZ
I’m pretty sure it was this show back in the 80s. A guy made a glaze out of his garage with baking soda, and it withstood heat so well, you could put a blow torch to it, and touch it seconds later.
Product “disappeared” and never made it to market, even though its fire-suppressive properties could be used for everything. Poof! Gone! I wonder which company bought it to keep it from competing against them.
Is that the stuff they use in flat irons? lol.
Pretty cool.
Sometimes I wish God would have made me smart enough to work at NASA. I’d be set.
Jerry Manderin, you know damn well you’d be too busy playing with the robots to get any work done. 😀
Good point. God knows best. 🙃
Roswell New Mexico 1948….
Cool beans. How are they gonna shield for cosmic radiation if they ever go out of the atmosphere again?
That is the question.
How much dosage did the Apollo astronauts get by type? Is that documented anywhere?
Hey H-A-P, mix in some commas now and then buddy. Had me thinking he made the glaze out of his actual garage at first! Hehe, I slay myself.