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Space Shuttle Hand Held Wireless Scanner
07.23.07
 
A new space shuttle tile inspection method using NASA-built, wireless scanners will replace manual inspection of the tiles beginning with the STS-118 mission. Technicians are using six new scanners to look for cracks and other imperfections in a number of the more than 24,000 tiles that cover space shuttle Endeavour, scheduled to fly to orbit during the summer of 2007. Prior to arrival of the scanners at NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida, inspectors had been visually analyzing tiles and making measurements of dings and cracks with small hand-held scales. These images -- taken at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., where the scanner was developed -- show sample shuttle tiles being scanned to illustrate how technicians would use the new tool to evaluate tiles on the space shuttle orbiter.

Photo Credit: NASA Ames Research Center/Dominic Hart

A new space shuttle tile inspection method using NASA-built, wireless scanners will replace manual inspection of the tiles beginning with the STS-118 mission.
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A new space shuttle tile inspection method using NASA-built, wireless scanners will replace manual inspection of the tiles beginning with the STS-118 mission.
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A new space shuttle tile inspection method using NASA-built, wireless scanners will replace manual inspection of the tiles beginning with the STS-118 mission.
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