It stopped to examine pieces of its discarded heat shield.

The last door let him out behind the heat shield, still in free fall.

Kraft was right; the heat shield had not been loose after all.

He spent some time hunting out the pod's heat shield.

Then his heat shield went down, and so, a moment later, did Bele's.

What they didn't know is that my ship's got the latest generation of heat shield on its nose.

The base would serve as the heat shield on reentry.

In August 1957, his team developed the ablative heat shield.

According to the reading, the heat shield and landing bag were no longer locked in position.

To prevent this, install the heat shield so that there is an air space of one or two inches behind it.