Lancaster County company helps NASA complete a historic outer space mission.
Mission Control at NASA wasn't the only room cheering the safe landing of the space capsule carrying a sample taken from an asteroid.The team at Weaver Industries in Denver, Lancaster County, cheered and breathed a sigh of relief when the capsule touched down in the Utah Desert.Weaver takes raw material, including graphite, and turns it into the heat shield protecting the capsule as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere. It worked. Without the shield, the capsule would burn up upon entry.
The team at Weaver Industries in Denver, Lancaster County, cheered and breathed a sigh of relief when the capsule touched down in the Utah Desert.Weaver takes raw material, including graphite, and turns it into the heat shield protecting the capsule as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere. It worked. Without the shield, the capsule would burn up upon entry.The project was years in the making. The capsule traveled billions of miles in temperatures reaching more than 5,000 degrees.
Weaver was founded by Harold Weaver as a wooden pattern company in 1954. But he soon branched out and eventually took the company on extra-terrestrial missions with NASA. Weaver also crafted the heat shields for the Mars rovers. They also were successful. When team members aren't working on out-of-this-world missions, they do work for the electronics industries, solar companies and much more.
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