These canisters were among the first objects sent into space that were designed to survive re-entry.

It was not designed to survive re-entry, and did not.

Very high heating rates might mean they're testing leading edges intended to survive vertical re-entry at orbital speeds.

The cask survived re-entry, as it was designed to do, and no release of plutonium has been detected.

The battery packs were among the few parts of the seven-ton probe expected to survive re-entry.

The likelihood of finding any debris is "fairly remote," he said, since "only 5 percent or less of a space object typically survives re-entry."

Tass said yesterday that the main debris likely to survive re-entry was a descent capsule attached to Cosmos 1686.

Date: 1959- Atmospheric entry simulator, used to determine if a specific shape can survive atmospheric re-entry.

Without the heat shield, the astronauts would not have survived re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere at the end of the mission.

He would be a total paraplegic if he survived re-entry.