Nasa chooses Orion heat shield

Brian Thorn wrote:
Wait, when did Orion ever have a reusable heat shield? I thought it
was just a removable/replaceable heat shield.


My bad, I checked and you're right - it was a replaceable ablator type
from the word go.

Pat

On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:55:16 -0500, Brian Thorn
wrote:


Wait, when did Orion ever have a reusable heat shield? I thought it
was just a removable/replaceable heat shield.

A removable heat shield would be a tall order, and NASA specifically
wanted to avoid the Shuttle's TPS pitfalls with Orion.

That should have read "reusable heat shield", by the way.

Brian