CSI: NASA -- Deciphering today's technological failures to prevent future problems
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 - 12:03
in Physics & Chemistry
Working side-by-side with designers developing technologies of the future are engineers deciphering what went wrong with some of the technologies of the present. They analyze readouts from precision tools, devise ways to test large pieces of rocket hardware without damaging the rocket itself, and burn, blow up or vaporize leftover fragments in an effort to find out why something failed.