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Monday, October 26, 2015

NASA and the U.S. Forest Service team up to design better fire shelters

When 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots were trapped by a raging wildfire in Arizona in 2013 and died inside their emergency shelters, Mary Beth Wusk took notice.

Then she took action.

A materials expert at NASA Langley Research Center here, Wusk and her team develop new flexible heat shield technologies...



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