One other example comes to mind that might have escaped professor Williams' attention -- replacement of rock-hard asbestos insulation by plastic foam on our space shuttles, leading directly to the ...

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER - Crews inspecting post-launch damage to Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center were forced to don hazmat gear after asbestos padding was found behind masonry in the ...

Is it true that NASA continued to use 1960s and 1970s software technology during the space shuttle era into the 2000s ... We still have lead paint on our staircase banisters and asbestos in ...

WASHINGTON — Conversion of shuttle-era solid rocket boosters and engines for use on the Space Launch System has cost NASA billions more and taken years longer than originally planned, the agency ...