Work on shuttle tile repair going 'extremely well,' NASA says
NASA is making good progress on a procedure to repair fragile space shuttle heat tiles on orbit, aerospace agency officials said Nov. 18, but work on techniques for repairing reinforced carbon carbon (RCC) tiles on the edge of the shuttle's wing is proceeding more slowly. "Tile repair is going...
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