CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A U.S. Navy NP-3D Orion aircraft takes off from the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The plane will fly below space shuttle Discovery as it approaches Kennedy Space Center for landing following the STS-119 mission. Onboard instruments will check the orbiters exterior temperatures and a long-range infrared camera will remotely monitor heating to the shuttles lower surface, part of the boundary layer transition flight experiment. For the experiment, a heat shield tile with a speed bump on it was installed under Discoverys left wing to intentionally disturb the airflow in a controlled manner and make the airflow turbulent. The tile, a BRI-18, was originally developed as a potential heat shield upgrade on the orbiters and is being considered for use on the Constellation Programs Orion crew exploration vehicles. The data will determine if a protuberance on a BRI-18 tile is safe to fly and will be used to verify and improve design efforts for future spac

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A U.S. Navy NP-3D Orion aircraft takes off from the Skid Strip at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The plane will fly below space shuttle Discovery as it approaches Kennedy Space Center for landing following the STS-119 mission. Onboard instruments will check the orbiters exterior temperatures and a long-range infrared camera will remotely monitor heating to the shuttles lower surface, part of the boundary layer transition flight experiment. For the experiment, a heat shield tile with a speed bump on it was installed under Discoverys left wing to intentionally disturb the airflow in a controlled manner and make the airflow turbulent. The tile, a BRI-18, was originally developed as a potential heat shield upgrade on the orbiters and is being considered for use on the Constellation Programs Orion crew exploration vehicles. The data will determine if a protuberance on a BRI-18 tile is safe to fly and will be used to verify and improve design efforts for future spac

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