A thermal tile designed for the Space Shuttle was stolen from the Shuttle Atlantis's display exhibit at NASA Kennedy Space Center on Sunday April 9, according to freelance photographer Brandon Thonen ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – A new space shuttle tile inspection method using NASA-built, wireless scanners is replacing manual inspection. The new process begins with the upcoming shuttle mission, STS-118 ...

As the space shuttle program took shape in the late 1960s, engineers were confronted with finding technology that could withstand the heat of re-entry without being too heavy, unreliable or costly.

NASA is offering 7,000 space shuttle tiles for the sweet price of $23.40. There are a couple of catches, though: You have to be a school or a university to buy one. Also, it's first come, first served ...

Atomic-6’s Space Armor (registered trademark) tiles have been chosen by the spacecraft company Portal Space Systems as a Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris (MMOD) protection system for its next ...