The “auto spray” acreage foam has strict environmental ... Core Stage have their heritage in the Space Shuttle External Tank. Although similar in application and appearance, the foam ...

Following more than 18-months of redesign work, the next external tank that will fuel a NASA space shuttle ... foam to prevent ice build-up. Tank engineers have also revised their foam application ...

The spray-on foam that insulates and protects the space shuttle's super-cold external fuel tank is applied in thin layers. The top of each layer dries to a bumpy crust, marking each layer in the ...

The robotically controlled operation coated the tank with spray-on foam insulation ... something never done previously during large foam applications on space shuttle external tanks at Michoud.

NASA is still planning to return the space ... where the shuttle attaches to the external tank – the foam that felled Columbia, replacing it with heaters. And the foam application process ...

NASA LAST DECEMBER, THE EXTERNAL TANK THAT WILL SOON THUNDER OFF THE LAUNCH PAD bolted to the space shuttle ... machines spray the smooth areas of the tank with a polyurethane foam, while ...

NASA already was redesigning part of the space shuttle ... the tank. Virtually all of the foam insulation is applied at Michoud. About three dozen of Michoud’s 1,900 workers hand-spray parts ...