Boeing Completes Developmental Heat Shield for Orion

Boeing is moving ahead on its part of the Lockheed Martin Orion crew exploration vehicle, completing a long-awaited developmental heat shield and shipping it to Kennedy Space Center for inspection. Boeing made the thermal protection system (TPS) from Phenolic Impregnated Carbon Ablator (PICA)...

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