Author Topic: NASA reviews TPS nose cap damage to STS-135/Atlantis  (Read 8060 times)

Online Chris Bergin

Nice to have another Shuttle article via a PRCB presentation on L2. Write up by Chris Gebhardt:

http://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2011/10/nasa-tps-nose-cap-damage-sts-135atlantis/
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Re: NASA reviews TPS nose cap damage to STS-135/Atlantis
« Reply #1 on: 10/16/2011 01:24 am »
Good article.  Didn't know a thing about it until now.

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Re: NASA reviews TPS nose cap damage to STS-135/Atlantis
« Reply #2 on: 10/16/2011 01:40 am »
proberly space debries!!!!!!
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Re: NASA reviews TPS nose cap damage to STS-135/Atlantis
« Reply #3 on: 10/16/2011 03:10 am »
proberly space debries!!!!!!

No, it probably was not debris. The likely causes explained in the article...

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Re: NASA reviews TPS nose cap damage to STS-135/Atlantis
« Reply #4 on: 10/16/2011 03:31 am »
How much funding are we talking about to "continue this study?"

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Re: NASA reviews TPS nose cap damage to STS-135/Atlantis
« Reply #5 on: 10/19/2011 08:39 pm »
proberly space debries!!!!!!

No, it probably was not debris. The likely causes explained in the article...

It actually explains pretty well why there are expansion gaps in the tiles.
I know they were necessary but didn't know how critical the gap size was.
« Last Edit: 10/19/2011 08:39 pm by Patchouli »

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