has finally landed at EWU, a low-temperature reusable surface insulation (LRSI) tile from the soon-to-retire Space Shuttle program (click to enlarge). This is one of several thousand tiles that NASA is donating to schools and universities from the replacement inventory that is no longer needed, and I put in a request for one for EWU in early December. I'm working on having it displayed (per NASA requirement) in the Engineering Building.
Very cool! Wouldn't you think they'd be named "high temperature" tiles instead of "low temperature"?
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