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    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 large solid propellant motor used to provide thrust in spacecraft launches from initial launch through the first ascent...
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    solid-propellant rocket or solid rocket is a rocket with a rocket engine that uses solid propellants (fuel/oxidizer). The earliest rockets were solid-fuel...
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    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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    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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    "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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    countries, 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    teacher in space. The Rogers Commission which convened shortly afterwards concluded that an O-ring seal in one of Challenger's solid rocket boosters failed...
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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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  • 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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    commercial crew, is the OmegA rocket, which will look similar to Ares I and will be based on the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster. The Commercial 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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  • 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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    Apollo-derived spacecraft launched on the Ares I rocket, which would use a Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster as its first stage. Orion would not face the...
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    defunct Ares I project, which consisted of a five segment Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) and a new cryogenic second stage, Liberty would combine...
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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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    STS-112 (category Space Shuttle missions)
    the metal SRB-ET Attach Ring near the bottom of the left Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster. Prior to the next mission (STS-113), an upper-level decision...
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    Observer's Home Page. NASA. "STS-48 Space Shuttle Mission Report | PDF | Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster | Space Shuttle Main Engine". Scribd. Retrieved...
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  • tests world's 3rd largest solid booster". dna. Retrieved October 4, 2014. "India to test world's third largest solid rocket booster". Science and Technology...
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  • Thiokol (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
    50. In 1974, Thiokol won the contract to build the solid rocket booster (SRB) for the Space Shuttle (Nov 29, 1973). In 1975, Thiokol succeeded Sperry Rand...
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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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    The Saturn-Shuttle concept also would have eliminated the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters that ultimately precipitated the Space Shuttle Challenger...
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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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    primary and secondary redundant O-ring seals in a joint in the shuttle's right solid rocket booster (SRB). The record-low temperatures on the morning of the...
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