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The heat shield and backup data recorder splashed down in the Pacific Ocean about two hours after launch, hundreds of miles off the coast of Hawaii, where a team on a boat was stationed to recover ...

The most common form of heat shield used today is made of phenol plastic. First developed in the 1950s, these protect returning spacecraft by what is called ablative shielding.

On Thursday, the space agency conducted a successful flight test of a new inflatable heat shield design that could become a key component of a human landing system for the red planet. Low-Earth ...