Student-built capsules turn a cargo spacecraft’s last trip into a heat-shield test

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• NASA demonstrates next-generation heat-shield technologies — NASA / Tara Friesen
• Robin Beck talks about designing heat shields to protect spacecraft — episode 88 — NASA
• Ames contributions to Orion — original heat-shield-testing B-roll — NASA / Ames Research Center
• Official Pigman College of Engineering giving page — University of Kentucky
• NASA images and media usage guidelines — NASA

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