Coming in hot! ⁣ ⁣ When the Orion spacecraft returns from the Moon, over 1,000 tiles help protect the spacecraft from the incredible heat of reentry.⁣ ⁣ The thermal protection system tiles are just one of the systems that Dervens Marseille, a manufacturing engineer for Lockheed Martin at NASAKennedy, helps install on Orion.⁣ ⁣ The tiles make up a protective cover known as Orion’s backshell, and are made of a silica fiber material similar to those used for more than 30 years on the space shuttle. They will protect the spacecraft from both the coldness of space and the extreme heat of entry into Earth’s atmosphere.⁣ ⁣ Credit: NASA⁣ ⁣ #ComingInHot #Reentry #OrionSpacecraft #Spacecraft #STEM #SpaceShuttle #Atmosphere #Orion