From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!alice!rabbit!jj Newsgroups: net.columbia Title: Re: New Shuttle Abort Site - (nf) Article-I.D.: rabbit.575 Posted: Tue Jun 29 11:03:03 1982 Received: Wed Jun 30 01:21:55 1982 References: pur-ee.377 alice.737 Out of curiousity, what happens when the shuttle starts to land with wet felt, the water boils, and the tiles all come off? Could it be that this is the reason for making sure that the tiles are dry? Considering the heat that is generated during re-entry, it seems to me that any moisture left in the tiles would boil, very rapidly in fact, and and blow the tiles off the ship. I don't like the sound of that.