Demonstration of Space Shuttle Thermal Tile Dissipating Heat – IOTW Report

Demonstration of Space Shuttle Thermal Tile Dissipating Heat

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17 Comments on Demonstration of Space Shuttle Thermal Tile Dissipating Heat

  1. 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.

  2. 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?

  3. 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..

  4. 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.

  5. 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?

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