COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Human Spaceflight Collection
Record
General Description:
STS-114 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Description:
JSC2004-E-53479 (10 December 2004) --- Astronaut James Reilly works in an extravehicular mobility unit spacesuit inside a thermal vacuum chamber at the Johnson Space Center, rehearsing the testing of materials, tools and techniques for repairing Space Shuttle thermal protection systems. This particular test, conducted Dec. 10, 2004, involved the application of a caulk-like crack repair material to samples of reinforced carbon-carbon, the same material that makes up the Space Shuttle wing leading edge. The cured test samples will be analyzed, and some will be subjected to simulated atmospheric reentry conditions in another test chamber at JSC.
image id:
Photo-jsc2004e53479
facet_what:
Space Shuttle Orbiter
facet_where:
Johnson Space Center (JSC)
facet_where:
Washington, D.C.
facet_when:
10 December 2004
facet_when_year:
2004
UID:
SPD-SPFLT-Photo-jsc2004e53479
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