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To: Elsewhere who wrote (129343)8/2/2005 11:13:40 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 793916
 
Well you will have to explain that as I did not see even a hint of the inventors claiming NASA rejected anything in anything you posted.

In any case the STS uses the existing tiles as a thermo-mechanical solution. I've seen nothing that suggests the material described meets the form fit function of the existing heat tiles.

Using this material on the nose cap of a structure designed to interface with it does not necessarily in any way suggest suitability to be used on the structure of the Shuttle. In any case the tiles are not the design problem with the space shuttle.

Having extensive experience with large systems designs and limited experience with specific designs for shuttle safety, I have a very high regard for the engineering experts at NASA.

My other personal experience with NASA is as an observer with regard to their working with my son when he was 15 and assisted in providing interface specifications for the micro-gravity crystal growth chamber he designed and built that flew on STS 68 I believe. His design and experiment worked perfectly.

All engineers work in a system where somewhat non technical considerations sometimes drive solutions. The shuttle has a redesign problem that was driven by environmental considerations.
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