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Recent Examples on the Web The lunar module, their lifeboat, had no heat shield and would be useless in re-entry. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Apollo 13 astronauts and flight controllers reflect on a 'successful failure'," 13 Apr. 2020 The impact could have caused the capsule to tumble, or damaged its heat shield. — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, "Boeing Starliner Flight’s Flaws Show ‘Fundamental Problem,’ NASA Says," 6 Mar. 2020 Embedded in the heat shield are five peepholes of varying sizes that will stay open just long enough for the science instruments to take measurements in X-ray, ultraviolet, visible and other wavelengths. — NBC News, "Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture first look at sun's poles," 10 Feb. 2020 Embedded in the heat shield are five peepholes of varying sizes that will stay open just long enough for the science instruments to take measurements in X-ray, ultraviolet, visible and other wavelengths. — Washington Post, "Solar Orbiter blasts off to capture 1st look at sun’s poles," 10 Feb. 2020 The two spacecraft could’ve even bumped into each other, in which case the impact could have damaged the heat shield. — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, "NASA Will Only Tolerate So Much Danger," 10 Feb. 2020 About 60 seconds into the procedure, the Starliner capsule jettisoned its heat shield and deployed airbags to soften the landing still further. — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, "Boeing’s Next-Generation Starliner Vehicle Passes Major Safety Test," 4 Nov. 2019 Three peepholes in the heat shield will open for 10 days at a time to allow the instruments to collect data. — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, "We’ve Never Seen the Sun’s Top or Bottom. Solar Orbiter Will Change That.," 10 Feb. 2020 As the probe ripped through Jupiter's upper atmosphere at 106,000 mph, would its heat shield withstand temperatures twice that of the surface of the sun ... — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, "Ford's secret weapon has a passion for batteries and came from NASA," 4 Mar. 2020

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