While Shuttle and Smooth Creations are apparently both still in the business of selling PCs, they sure seem to be going about it in a strange way, with each company recently busting out systems ...

Shuttle Program DeputyManager Wayne Hale tried ... Plus, the goo wasdifficult to apply. It didn't stick well to tiles. And it bubbled when mixed,creating voids that could weaken a repair patch.

Noguchiwill test a new tool called the Emmitance Wash Applicator, which works somewhatlike a liquid glue stick to adhere material to shuttle tiles that boosts theirability to emit heat.

IN 1981, DEVELOPMENT OF INSULATING TILES CONTRIBUTED TO DELAYS IN THE FIRST SHUTTLE LAUNCH, and last year, the difficulty of repairing tiles raised the world’s anxiety about the shuttle’s most ...

Feb. 4 -- A day after Columbia's liftoff, NASA confirmed that a piece of loose foam insulation had damaged the shuttle, but engineers concluded it wouldn't fatally damage its critical thermal ...

That’s what the [Breaking Taps] channel on YouTube sought to find out, using an eBay-purchased chunk of Shuttle thermal tile along with bits of Starship tiles that washed ashore following the ...