Technician mounts some of the nearly 8,000 ceramic-coasted tiles that remain to be installled on the external surface of the Space Shuttle Columbia. A proportion of the 31-34,000 thermal protection tiles are attached by wires to onboard sensors,which measure characteristics such as temperature & pressure encountered during flight. The tiles,making up the thermal protection system,absorb the intense heat experienced when the spacecraft reenters the Earth's atmosphere | |
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