WASHINGTON -- Tile repair kits for astronauts were proposed, developed and even tested dating back to the very beginning of the space shuttle program, but NASA officials repeatedly rejected equipping ...

Accidents do happen ... children drop toys, pots fall in the kitchen, and as a popular flooring choice in many homes, a tiled floor is susceptible to chips from everyday use. If you have a tile floor ...

The likelihood of the Space Shuttle Discovery return-to-flight mission STS 114 scheduled for March 2005 or later carrying all the equipment originally planned is slim, preventing NASA from meeting ...

Astronauts on the space shuttle have tested a heat-shield tile-repair kit. Spacewalker Michael Foreman squeezed a toothpaste-like material into holes in sample tiles; and then patted the goo flat with ...