Sentence examples for heat tile from inspiring English sources

In another, there were retired exhibits, Tesla coils, a heat tile from a NASA space shuttle.

Steam heat, tile baths, cable TV, a large playground, picnic tables and grills, no pets allowed.

In heat tile experiments conducted Tuesday night, a duplicate of the Endeavour's gouge was carved into a two-foot array of tiles.

To this list can now be added the heat tile failure on the Columbia shuttle re-entry; the English Channel fire that left thousands stranded and shut down the undersea tunnel between France and England for months; the recent crash of the airplane carrying virtually all of the Polish government officials to a meeting; and the compromised levies protecting New Orleans pre-Katrina.

We had a demonstration on how heat tile could resist an extremely intense flame.

On the space shuttles, O-rings got scorched, heat tiles fell off, foam insulation broke free.

NASA also is developing a silicone-based, heat-resistant material that can be applied in space and adheres to heat tiles, aluminum and other shuttle materials.

New tools were developed to identify and analyze damage to the heat tiles, and senior managers began to make sure that dissenting voices could be heard.

During re-entry, there will still be an undercurrent of uncertainty over a small gouge in the heat tiles on the Endeavour's belly.

In each of the three prior missions with similar problems, a number of protective heat tiles were damaged, Mr. Counts said.

This will be her first space flight, and she will be working the shuttle's robotic arm to inspect the shuttle's heat tiles for launch damage and work with spacewalking astronauts from inside the spacecraft, among other tasks.