NASA and the U.S. Forest Service team up to design better fire shelters
Monday, October 26, 2015 - 05:30
in Astronomy & Space
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...