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The Story of Jeanne Lee Crews and the Space Bumper
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Final Improvements
Months later, the shield was finally done. Four layers of fabric with three inches of air space in between created a shield lighter than one sheet of aluminum. But now that that project was done, Johnson Space Center needed a shield for the crew modules on the International Space Station, which is the astronauts living quarters. This came easy to Jeanne and her team though, since they could just flatten the original shield, and add one new ingredient, a bullet proof material called Kevlar.
The Project
The shield had to be lightweight, but extremely strong. Instead of aluminum, Jeanne decided she would make the bumper out of many different materials. Her first idea was a ceramic fabric commonly used to line furnaces. With a bunch of thin layers of the material, Jeanne would be able to create a powerful shocker affect that could break apart most particles. She tested her idea with a high-tech light-gas gun. And it worked!
The Space Bumper
The Space Bumper officially belongs to NASA, Jeanne and her coworker's employer. Without her invention, satellites, astronauts, and experiments in space would be in danger, but thanks to Jeanne, they don't have to worry about any of that! Without the Space Bumper we wouldn't be able to have bike helmets, diabetic pumps, heart-rate monitors, or even satellite TV! And now that our problems on Earth are solved, who knows what problems we'll solve by exploring and experimenting in space! Thanks to Jeanne, now the possibilities are endless.
Urgency
"We must do something!" Jeanne yelled at her boss, holding a deformed chunk of metal. Jeanne was worried. What if traveling space debris and asteroids destroyed every space station and satellite? Finally, after convincing her boss, the 1980s aerospace engineer Jeanne Lee Crews set to work on a shield to protect crafts from the dangers of space: But would it work?