[XBob]

1748 - "They are inflated in the "tire lab" and then baked and frozen in environmental chambers to make sure they don't leak at extreme temperatures. Once installed for flight, they are never touched again. "

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good find.

Now, (I think I posted it on here, but am not sure) I found a commentary by NASA, somewhere along the line, that they modified the standard re-entry for this flight to 'warm' the tires, because the bird spent 16 days upside down, with the wheel wells facing 'cold' space.

In addition, the mission profile scheduled, indicated that there would be 2 re-entry turns, yet the published actual time lines keep talking about 4 turns.

[snopercod]

good find

Well, it wasn't exactly a "find". It came from personal knowledge, since I have actually been in the tire lab at KSC.