Reusable Solid Rocket Motor Test
NASA’s Space Shuttle Program successfully fired a reusable solid rocket motor Thursday, May 24, at a Utah test facility. The two-minute test provided important information for continued shuttle launches and for development of the rocket that will carry the next human spacecraft to the moon.
The static firing of the full-scale, full-duration flight support motor was performed at 1 p.m. MDT at ATK Launch Systems Group, a unit of Alliant Techsystems Inc. in Promontory, Utah, where the shuttle’s solid rocket motors are manufactured. Read more
