MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – A new space shuttle tile inspection method using NASA-built, wireless scanners is replacing manual inspection. The new process begins with the upcoming shuttle mission, STS-118 ...

Now the failure of the tiles is a leading theory for the catastrophic end of Columbia. NASA struggled for years in trying to ensure that the tiles were firmly attached to the shuttle, Paul Fischbeck, ...

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HOUSTON -- NASA ordered Endeavour’s crew to take an unusual close-up look at a damaged tile in the space shuttle’s delicate heat shield early Saturday morning. Using the shuttle’s robotic arm, ...

DALLAS — The tiles that protect the space shuttle from searing heat are all that stands between disaster and safety for the flight crew re-entering the atmosphere as a hurtling fireball. The ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- With the countdown for Discovery in its final hours, NASA was dealt an embarrassing setback Tuesday when a window cover fell off the shuttle and damaged thermal tiles near ...

NASA officials said last night that they believe the gouge in the bottom of the space shuttle Endeavour is not severe enough to keep the spaceship from returning safely to Earth, but they want more ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Ceramic heat-protection tiles — for three decades, the fragile symbol of the space-shuttle era — have gained an unexpected new lease on life. Long assumed to be destined for the ...

The space shuttle has made space exploration history over the past 30 years by regularly traveling through extreme temperature fluctuations. Scientists and engineers collaborated to develop unique ...