The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) was the first solid-propellant rocket to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight...
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A solid rocket booster (SRB) is a solid propellant motor used to provide thrust in spacecraft launches from initial launch through the first ascent. Many...
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Shuttle continued flying its Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster until retirement.[citation needed] After the Space Shuttle retired, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne...
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reliability, solid rockets are still used today in military armaments worldwide, model rockets, solid rocket boosters and on larger applications. Since solid-fuel...
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many on multiple trips. The Space Shuttle, composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank...
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primary and secondary O-ring seals in a joint in the right Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB). The record-low temperatures on the morning of the launch...
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"backbone" of the shuttle during launch, providing structural support for attachment with the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) and orbiter...
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engines. The booster may be recovered, refurbished and reused, as was the case of the steel casings used for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters. The SM-65...
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joint common on all Space Shuttle SRBs. The CASTOR 300 motor is a proposed booster based on the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster and was intended to...
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solid rocket boosters. They use casing segments that were flown on Shuttle missions as parts of the four-segment Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters....
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Rogers Commission Report (redirect from Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident)
President, Shuttle Project, Huntsville Brian G. Russell Day 8, February 26, 1986 Larry Mulloy, Manager, Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Program, Marshall...
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been the first teacher in space. The Rogers Commission concluded that an O-ring seal in one of Challenger's solid rocket boosters failed to contain pressurized...
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Reusable launch vehicle (redirect from Reusable rocket)
configurations in use. The historic Space Shuttle reused its Solid Rocket Boosters, its RS-25 engines and the Space Shuttle orbiter that acted as an orbital...
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Ares I (redirect from Ares I rocket)
above segmented solid rocket booster (SRB) first stages. The variants that were considered included both the J-2S engines and Space Shuttle Main Engines...
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Saturn V (redirect from Saturn V rocket)
a handful of launches. The Saturn-Shuttle concept also could have eliminated the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters that ultimately precipitated the Challenger...
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uses a pair of solid rocket boosters derived from the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster. The first SLS was delivered to Kennedy Space Center in 2021...
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secured the solid rocket boosters (SRB) of the Space Shuttle, which were bolted to the mobile launcher platform (MLP) until liftoff. On the Shuttle, they were...
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shuttle cockpit simulator comes to Tucson". news.azpm.org. Retrieved December 1, 2022. "THIOKOL SPACE SHUTTLE SOLID ROCKET BOOSTER - Pima Air & Space"...
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OmegA (redirect from OmegA (rocket))
a five segment Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) and a cryogenic second stage. It was intended to be launched from Kennedy Space Center LC-39B or...
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Rocketdyne F-1 (redirect from Advanced Booster Competition)
NASA's Advanced Booster Program, which aims to find a more powerful successor to the five-segment Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters intended for early...
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and Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) would be combined with a cargo module that took the place of the shuttle orbiter and included the Space Shuttle...
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world Largest solid-fuel rocket motor ever flown, and the first to be used for primary propulsion on human spaceflight missions "In-Space Product Data...
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recoverable solid rocket boosters (SRBs), and the expendable external tank (ET) containing liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen. The Space Shuttle was launched...
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Orbital ATK (redirect from Northrop Grumman Space Systems Group)
rocket Space Launch System Solid Rocket Booster, based on the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Al Yah 3, communications satellite for Al Yah Satellite Communications...
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external tank and Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) would be combined with a cargo module to take the place of the Shuttle orbiter and include...
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McDonnell Douglas Barbarian (category Rockets and missiles)
solid fuel booster rockets derived from the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster attached to a ring consisting of six main stages of Delta II rockets,...
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existing Space Shuttle External Tank with a pair of standard four-segment Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) mounted at the sides as on the Space Shuttle. Up to...
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Ares V (category Shuttle-derived space launch vehicles)
core stage. The solid rocket booster on Ares V was first envisioned as an improved version of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster, but with five or...
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Before the Apollo 11 Moon landing in 1969, NASA began studies of Space Shuttle designs as early as October 1968. The early studies were denoted "Phase...
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The Space Shuttle launch vehicle had three main components: the Space Shuttle orbiter, a single-use central fuel tank, and two reusable solid rocket boosters...
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