How come planes can fly in the rain but something as advanced as a shuttle can ?
I can understand why you would ask that question. The shuttle cannot fly in the rain because those tiny little water droplets of rain when they hit a tile and the shuttle is traveling at say 300, 400, Mach 2, at those kinds of speeds, it acts almost like a bullet hitting that tile. The tiles are very brittle and fragile on their outside, so they can’t stand to hit raindrops going at high speeds. So I can understand why you’d be confused about this very high-tech thing that can’t do something as simple as fly through the rain. But that’s why we can’t do it.
