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...shuttle in flight with remote cameras. And while the dislodged foam caused much consternation at the space agency, Discovery had the least loss of foam when compared to the other shuttle launches. Still, the first-ever space walk to the underside of the shuttle was deemed necessary to pull cloth from between tiles, again to err on the side of caution. And despite the smaller amount of foam debris hits, NASA admits that the largest chunk to fall could have been equally disastrous had it hit the shuttle's wing or a heat-shielding tile elsewhere on the craft...
...this little Egyptian girl, less than 4 ft. tall, had passed on to what her people believed was the next life. In preparation for the journey, her body's internal organs--all except for the heart--had been removed and replaced with aromatic preservatives. Then she was wrapped in cloth, mummified and placed in a casing made of a papier-mâché--like material called cartonnage...
STEPHEN ROBINSON, astronaut who, in a stunningly simple spacewalk repair job, used his fingers to pluck two pieces of cloth filler dangling from the space shuttle; NASA feared the loose bits would compromise the shuttle's heat shields upon re-entry...
...WHAT IS GAP FILLER AND WHY IS IT A PROBLEM? The underside of the shuttle flexes during the stress and heating of reentry. To prevent the rigid tiles from grinding or chipping, heat resistant cloth is fitted between them. Ordinarily, the filler is flush with the ship, all but invisible to the eye. But on Discovery, two pieces are protruding near the nose-one 1.1 inch, the other .06 inch, and need to be snipped away...
Tuttle's small-scale aesthetic doesn't always translate well into larger formats. In a not-quite-sculptural work like Six--a palisade of sticks, some of them shrouded in cloth hoods--the scrimshaw intricacy of his little wall pieces is lost, and not much comes forward to compensate. As metaphor, the piece is illegible, and as an assemblage of materials, it's not much. But so much else of what he does is choice. If this is "less," let's have more...