#solid rocket booster

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SRB from STS-126 undergoing inspection in AF hanger 081121 08pd3764

Cliff Steenhoff on Flickr

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Cliff Steenhoff on Flickr

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STS-121 Discovery SRB Recovery Operations 060705 99707361.d7k2143z.39

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Watch the assembly of the Atlas rocket that will launch NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover on its journey.

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House chicken, chicken in the house!!

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Used on Solid Rocket Booster hold-down posts

Space Shuttle Columbia Launch-Exploded Frangible Nut. Before a Space Shuttle launch, frangible nuts were placed at the top of the four 28" long x 3.5" diameter bolts that secured each SRB to the Mobile Launch Platform. At the instant of launch, two embedded NSD (NASA standard detonator) explosive charges broke each nut into two halves allowing the release of the craft from the MLP. The nut halves were caught in a blast container and occasionally awarded to astronauts or, as in this case, Shuttle-related VIPs such as Charles D. "Chuck" Clary. We offer both halves of this one, verbally attributed to STS-107, the ill-fated last mission of the Columbia. On the top of one section, the following information is printed: FRANGIBLE NUT 55340/10306-0001-802 MFG. DATE: MO: 01 YR:86 MFG: 19113/114850-11 LOT SER. NO.: AAF-1000589

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Just bobbing around.

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This photograph was taken during the static test firing of the DM-2 (Demonstration Motor) for the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) at the testing ground of Thiokol Corporation near Brigham City, Utah. As one of the major components of the Space Shuttle, SRBs provide most of the power, their combined thrust of some 5.8 million pounds, for the first two minutes of flight. The SRBs took the Space Shuttle to an altitude of 28 miles and a speed of 3,094 miles per hour before they separated and fell back into the ocean to be retrieved, refurbished, and prepared for another flight. Marshall Space Flight Center had the management responsibilities with (what was originally known as the) Thiokol Corporation as the prime contractor

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STS-88 Mating in VAB by NASA on The Commons 

Via Flickr: The orbiter Endeavour is suspended in a vertical position inside the Vehicle Assembly Building where it will be mated with its solid rocket boosters and external tank. Endeavour is scheduled to fly on mission STS-88, the first Space Shuttle flight for the assembly of the International Space Station, on December 3, 1998. The primary payload on the mission is the Unity connecting module, which will be mated to the Russian-built Zarya Control Module already in orbit at that time. Image # : 98PC-1341