> NASA became involved in Starlite in 1994, and NASA engineer Rosendo 'Rudy' Naranjo[17] talked about its potential in a Dateline NBC report. The Dateline repor

> NASA became involved in Starlite in 1994, and NASA engineer Rosendo 'Rudy' Naranjo[17] talked about its potential in a Dateline NBC report. The Dateline reporter stated that Starlite could perhaps help with the fragile Space Shuttle heat shield.[13] Naranjo said of their discussions with Ward, "We have done a lot of evaluation and … we know all the tremendous possibilities that this material has." Presumably NASA and the inventor couldn't reach a deal over the decades? Or it wasn't as useful as claimed? But then why would a company have paid to acquire the tech in 2013?