Hi all, I have a tile I would like to find out more information on. It is a black 6" x 6" square and has a rather odd number:VT70-006006-020-001009 BOTTOM DAll I've been able to gather is that this is a test tile, and likely was meant to go on the bottom of the orbiter.My questions are, what do the other numbers mean? Can we tell where the tile would have went specifically, or which orbiter it might have been used with? What dates/time period was this test tile in use? Any information at all would be greatly appreciated.
I like the tile map diagrams. I've only seen these on press briefings. Will there be a PDF version of these maps for research and model reference? I know it's on L2, but what of a version for those not part of L2?
Still looking for location info on these three - received by a school...Thin White tile - V070-391143-204 JG0877 - SCRAP in redThick White tile 64642 10574Thick Black tile VT70-191037-027 MN0101346
A reminder to keep an eye out for this stolen hardware being put on sale (which I guess could be around this period now the story has eased away from people's minds)....https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=42715.0Would be nice to catch the fool in the act.
any knowledge of this tile?V070-395004-023-008602 Or -808602
Digging EVEN deeper: I highly suspect this is a "Tiles for Teachers" tile and not a "real" flight tile: https://web.archive.org/web/20160101200008/https://artifacts.nasa.gov/tile_serial_numbers.htmA couple notes: - Flight tiles have their part numbers stenciled on (see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Space_Shuttle_Endeavour_Tile_damage_Aug_12-2007.jpg). I'm unaware of any flight tiles that use this dot matrix style of printing. - The first characters of the tile in the photo are VO70, which corresponds to the link above. The problem is that their explanation is incorrect. "V" does indeed mean "Vehicle End Item", but the second character should be a "0" (zero), not an "O". The choices are "0", "C", "D", "K", "P", "R", "S", and "T". "0" in this case means "Production Configuration". The next digits refer to it being an orbiter drawing -- "70" refers to the orbiter. Other choices are 72 through 76 and 82. - As I mentioned before, the size of the tile is wrong for the part number.Sorry to say, this isn't a "real" tile -- it's most likely an artifact produced from tile stock for NASA to distribute at the end of the program.