For those who follow NASA's human spaceflight program, when the Orion spacecraft's heat shield cracked and chipped away during atmospheric reentry on the unpiloted Artemis I test flight in late ...

(WAVY) — NASA’s Langley Research Center has been developing an inflatable heat shield. What is that ... according to NASA it’s 15 times stronger than steel. On the outside of the circular ...

They saw cracks in the craft's heat shield and divots in the ablative thermal protection layer resembling potholes on a neglected street. This isn't what engineers expected, and they spent the ...