Heatshield Inventor by Kerry Young - Free eBooks Download

Author's Name: Kerry Young
Title: Heatshield Inventor
Number of Pages: 9781681397030
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In the late 1950s NACA and the Department of Defense had a problem. They could not figure out how to make a heat shield for manned spacecraft or ICBMs. The Air Force used heat-sink metals, especially copper and the Navy, on Polaris, used a beryllium heat sink shield. The Space Task Group, in March, 1958, were leaning toward the heat sink method. The Huntsville, Alabama mu