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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (129414)	8/3/2005 2:38:16 AM
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I did not see even a hint of the inventors claiming NASA rejected anything in anything you posted. I did not say the inventors claimed it. Parts of the WELT article translated for you: German heat protection tiles would be able to help NASA welt.de It's still uncertain how the NASA shuttle program will evolve. The heat protection remains the weak point. ... Amazingly no NASA employee mentions that there is already an alternative to the susceptible shield. Material researchers of the German Center for Air and Space in Stuttgart have developed a ceramics material which would be able to substitute the 25,000 tiles of the shuttle with few robust plates. The carbon fibre-reinforced material had been developed for the planned X-38. The ceramics was tested in unmanned space trips and will also be used for advanced car brake systems. ... Nasa has already noticed the Stuttgart development but there was no further cooperation. When asked why the researchers keep quiet. Obviously the scientists would leave their specialty of scientific research. The reasons are more of a political nature. Either the NASA does not want to invest in the adaptation to the shuttle. This would be shortsighted because the safety checks necessary for the existing heat protection cost millions and millions. These sums could be used more efficiently. Second possibility: the NASA is loath to admitting to itself and US citizens that the superior technology is originating abroad. If modern material is to be used it has to be developed itself. Both reasons are foolish and frivolous. Manned space exploration has already become an international endeavor which no country can master itself. The cooperation of the NASA with the Stuttgart institute is overdue.

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