Re: Shuttle tile felt question


"Pat Flannery" <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I went digging around for images of the felt backing under the tiles, as I
noticed on the images of the tile ding from orbit it appears to be black in
color:
http://a52.g.akamaitech.net/f/52/827/1d/www.space.com/images/070812_sts118_tileinspct_02.jpg
Images of the tiles being applied to the Shuttle though show that the
surface they are applied to appears to be white:
http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Newsroom/X-Press/2001/Mar30/images/tiles.jpg
...are each of the tiles backed with black felt, and is this then secured
down to a white felt that is attached to the exterior skin of the Shuttle?

We tend to think of ships as female, and the shuttle is a spaceship, which
explains why the engineers felt her up.


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