Pictured is the first Avcoat manufacturing demonstration unit for the Orion crew exploration vehicle. Approimately 30 percent of the full five-meter heat shield shows Avcoat thermal protection materail attached (at various stages of completion) to a surrogate Orion heat shield carrier structure. Work being done at Textron.
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NASA ID
ARC-2009-ACD09-0083
Date Created
May 14, 2009
Center
ARC
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image
Photographer
Textron
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