The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were ...

Private space company Sierra Space announced it is developing a new tile-based thermal protection system to support ...

ORNL and Sierra Space developed a thermal protection system for reusable spacecraft, withstanding multiple re-entries.

The thermal protection system on the outside of the space shuttle included hundreds of ceramic tiles custom made for the ...

A silicon-carbide-based thermal protection system developed by ORNL and Sierra Space researchers will be used on the Sierra ...

CMC tiles will be used on the Sierra Space DC100 Dream Chaser spaceplane carrying critical supplies and science experiments ...

SpaceX launched its sixth Starship rocket Tuesday, proving for the first time that the stainless steel ship can maneuver in ...

NASA retired its last Lockheed F-104 Starfighter in #OTD 1994. From pilot training to testing Space Shuttle thermal protection tiles, NASA utilized F-104 Starfighters as flight research and ...

SpaceX's Starship vehicle that will one day propel humans deep into the cosmos launched Tuesday on its latest flight test as ...

The space station is now back to its normal ... marshmallow after it comes back,” Tice said. “We see that thermal protection system having done its job in protecting the structure of the ...