A recent NASA flight test ending at the Kwajalein missile range in the Pacific might lead to a new aerospace design that would make the space shuttle look downright old-fashioned.
At the end of September, NASA sent four 5-inch, triangular forms made of so-called ultrahigh-temperature ceramics into space for a 23-minute flight.
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