UA Civil Engineering Professor Tribikam Kundu is designing a way to test the thermal-protection tiles on a re-useable space vehicle to prevent accidents on the ground and during re-entry into the ...

Two spacewalking astronauts pulled out a caulk gun and high-tech putty and tested a method for patching shuttle thermal tiles. It was the fourth spacewalk since Endeavour arrived at the international ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -Shuttle Discovery will make a fiery plunge through the atmosphere this weekend,serving as a hypersonic test bed for new heat shield tiles that might be usedto protect astronauts ...