Jay Novella
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And then when they fix it on the ground, they tell them, all right, this is what you do.
I wonder if it was even at that level of... I mean, it wasn't a life or death thing.
For the shielding?
No, for the crapper.
If you remember, the shuttle had the shuttle tiles, and they weren't ablative, I don't think.
So I wonder why they went in a different direction there.
Real quick, guys, I just saw something quick about the difference between the shuttle tiles and the ablative Artemis.
Yes, it's single-use.
It's absolutely single-use, as we said, and designed to burn away.
But the reason why they went from a tile to this AV code, or is it AV code?
This AV code, ablative...
is that the lunar reentry is higher energy.
So these shuttle tiles are meant for low Earth orbit.
They're not meant for lunar reentry.
So more heat is generated.
So you need something apparently ablative and better than the tile.
The Orion capsule.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Somebody says to you, guess what this tissue is in the body?