Pat Flannery wrote in message ...
Henry Spencer wrote:

Shouldn't actually be that hard to do, although you'd want to be more
careful about the details than on Gemini. Ablators are versatile.


There are some photos of the one on a Soviet VA capsule on this page:
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/tks.html


How did they reapply ablative material to that VA capsule? Did the
bottom unscrew? Did they have to drill out honeycombs like Apollo? I'm
trying to imagine how much chipping and drilling would be required to
plug a flight-ready heat shield on the back of that thing.

With updates in ceramics, would it be possible to build a tile-based
re-entry shield for a fall from the Moon?


Wasn't GT-2 a recycled ship?