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... to refine the means of towing to shore for refurbishment and reuse recovered Solid Rocket Booster s from Space Shuttle launches. These tests explored the question of whether the parachute recovery ... would be tested to determine which configuration made it easier to retrieve and tow the booster. ( MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC Marshall Star, 10 Sept 75, 2) Apollo 17 Astronaut Harrison ...

... test of a system to retrieve Shuttle solid-fuel rocket boosters by parachute had demonstrated that the system could save the boosters for reuse. The sixth and final airdrop Sept. 12 had ... parachute structural test, however, as it had sustained the necessary load. Actual weight of the boosters to be recovered after Shuttle launches would be about three times the present world-record weight of 24 948kg (55 0001b) for parachute recovery; each empty booster would weigh about 78 000kg (172 0001b) during descent. MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC engineers ...

... the attach points between the boosters and external tank. After installing brackets to strengthen the boosters at the gyros location, NASA would conduct individual tests on that booster section at a test facility ... simulate the Space Shuttle configuration just before burnout and separation of the solid-fuel rocket boosters at an altitude of about 43.5km (27mi), (Marshall Star, Dec 6/78, 1) Harold ...

... Ocean Search, Inc., Lanham, Md., from the deck of the United Space Boosters recovery ship U7C Freedom, showed the boosters on the ocean floor, broken up by the impact. The debris had ... camera with six quartz-diode floodlights to illuminate the ocean-floor. The solid-fuel rocket boosters' parachutes failed to open properly because explosive bolts on half the parachute risers fired prematurely ...

... Dryden Flight Research Facility (DFRF) to try out larger parachutes for Shuttle boosters. The current means of slowing booster descent after launch into the ocean for retrieval and later use consisted of ... announced its decision to locate a refurbishment and assembly facility for Shuttle solid-fuel rocket boosters elsewhere than in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at KENNEDY SPACE CENTER KSC . High production ...

... "Soviet Military Power 1984" had originally suggested the existence of a new family of Soviet booster rockets. The publication asserted that the biggest of the new Soviet rockets could lift payloads ... the Earth, about seven times more than the largest operational Soviet booster and five times more than the biggest U.S. booster, the Space Shuttle . The publication also said the Soviet Union ...

... the Shuttle's reusable rocket boosters during the June launch of Columbia . NASA planned to replace the booster before launching Atlantis , scheduled to retrieve Lucid. The reusable rocket boosters, packed with fuel, launch the Shuttle. After pushing the Shuttle into space, the boosters fall off and ...

... ,000-feet whereupon they separate and the nuclear engine then fires to LEO. This solid booster lift does four things: 1. it allows the cargo plane and its flight crew to ... . nuclear engines need about 30-60 seconds to come to full power, so the solid boosters allow this to happen and prevent the stage from sinking back to earth. 3. the ... this is an unknown. I also tried unsuccessfully to get the cost of the solid boosters, so this is another unknown though the readers may good data here. And I have ...

... still in their infancies, he was spelling out that he envisioned a conventional chemical-propellant booster using liquid-propellants to boost the Moon rocket beyond the Earth's atmosphere and at ... “in a vast rocket, powered by atomic energy” (but presumably still with a chemical-propellant booster). “His calculations or rather, those of Dr. Heard ,” the paper continues, embodied “...the apparent paradox ...

... manned Apollo or­bital flights employing the Saturn I booster and accelerating the all-systems manned Apollo flights employing the Saturn I-B booster. Saturn I would have been able to orbit ... , 10/31/63, 5)'' Thrust-Augmented Thor space booster developed by the USAF would be added to the National Launch Vehicle program as booster for Agena and Delta vehicles, DOD and NASA ...

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