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... % scale model of the Space Shuttle solid-fuel rocket booster (SRB) that would be tested in Ames Research Center wind tun booster (the 2 supersonic facilities and the 4.2m transonic facility ... to determine the best way to control noise and ignition overpressure when Shuttle engines and boosters were ignited at launch; uncontrolled pressures and acoustics could damage the Shuttle or its payload ... used in elements of the Space Shuttle . Recovery of 2 Shuttle boosters after each launch would require towing the boosters in the salty Atlantic Ocean and into the brackish waters of a ...

... advantages in using an expendable liquid hydrogen tank for the orbiter." This became baseline with booster configuration unchanged except for modification. While process reduced development costs, expendability of tanks increased flight ... on booster development, NASA first considered "flyback booster incorporating F-1 engines and phasing orbiter systems" and later "unmanned ballistic boosters." Leading candidates were recoverable and reusable pressure-fed liquid- propellant booster and booster with ...

... the space program." (NASA Release 85-16) Solid-fuel Rocket Boosters NASA and United Technologies 's United Space Boosters Inc.'s Booster Production Co. officials would break ground January 30 for Marshall Space Flight Center 's ( MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC ) solid-fuel rocket booster (SRB) assembly and ...

... 70-metric-ton (77-ton) configuration will use two five-segment solid rocket boosters similar to the boosters that helped power the space shuttle to orbit. An evolved 130-metric-ton (143-ton) rocket will require an advanced booster with more thrust than any existing U.S. liquid- or solid-fueled boosters. Aerojet will work to reduce the risk and improve ... Corporation Aerospace Systems of Redondo Beach, Calif. These new initiatives will perform and examine advanced booster concepts and hardware demonstrations during an approximate 30-month period. While commercial partners seek to ...

... developing 4,100 lbs. thrust, Booster stage used a solid propellant Nike motor with 51,000 lbs, thrust. Booster and sustainer stages fired simultaneously, with the booster burning out and separating about 3 ... ). Lockheed would design, develop, and fabricate equipment and match the Agena s with the Atlas boosters and the spacecraft. ''(NASA Release 65-199)'' ComSatCorp was authorized by FCC to begin temporary ...

... whether the NASA manned space flight program could be accelerated, Mr. Webb answered that the booster program could be accelerated with a crash program spending another $1 to $2 billion a ... President, told House Committee on Sciences and Astronautics that two Aerojet concepts of recoverable/reusable boosters compared favorably to cost and capability of Saturn C-5 . One concept was Sea Dragon ...

... Release 76-75) NASA announced selection of United Space Boosters , Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., as assembly contractor for the Space Shuttle solid-fuel booster rocket. USBI, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Technologies ... would supervise assembly, checkout, and refurbishment of the boosters, and KSC would supervise final assembly, checkout, launch operations, and postlaunch disassembly of the boosters. First of six orbital test flights had been ...

... in maximum body diameter. The first stage was a McDonnell Douglas extended long-tank Thor booster incorporating 9 strap-on Thiokol Castor II solid-fuel rocket motors; second stage was powered ... system to refurbish Space Shuttle parachutes. Each of the Shuttle's two solid-fuel rocket boosters jettisoned into the Atlantic Ocean shortly after launch would carry 4 nylon parachutes; both the ...

... panel investigating the loss of two solid-fuel rocket boosters after the launch of STS-4 said that a switch in the. booster decelerators was at fault. Premature separation of one of ... the water. A switch designed to release the chutes when the boosters hit the water had freed the parachutes from the boosters before impact, probably because of severe shock when the explosion ... the boosters. Before STS-5 , NASA modified the decelerating system to fix both risers firmly to each booster, to eliminate switch separation, and to prevent shock from affecting other subsystems. The booster deceleration ...

... top of two million pounds of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen and two solid rocket boosters, and they told you about this umbrella that’s over the pad, that keeps lightning ... we essentially controlled, or had oversight over every safety issue dealing with Shuttle, solid rocket boosters, external tank, crew training, you name it. And it was all headed up out of ... things, pieces, parts, on the Orbiter, the ET External Tank and the SRBs Solid Rocket Boosters , that we could not fly without having them work properly. For something to get on ...

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