Static Test Firing DM-2 for Solid Rocket Booster
This photograph was taken during the static test firing of the DM-2 (Demonstration Motor) for the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) at the testing ground of Thiokol Corporation near Brigham City, Utah. As one of the major components of the Space Shuttle, SRBs provide most of the power, their combined thrust of some 5.8 million pounds, for the first two minutes of flight. The SRBs took the Space Shuttle to an altitude of 28 miles and a speed of 3,094 miles per hour before they separated and fell back into the ocean to be retrieved, refurbished, and prepared for another flight. Marshall Space Flight Center had the management responsibilities with (what was originally known as the) Thiokol Corporation as the prime contractor
Credit: NASA
Image Number: MSFC 7883821
Date: January 18, 1978
Static Test Firing DM-2 for Solid Rocket Booster
This photograph was taken during the static test firing of the DM-2 (Demonstration Motor) for the Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) at the testing ground of Thiokol Corporation near Brigham City, Utah. As one of the major components of the Space Shuttle, SRBs provide most of the power, their combined thrust of some 5.8 million pounds, for the first two minutes of flight. The SRBs took the Space Shuttle to an altitude of 28 miles and a speed of 3,094 miles per hour before they separated and fell back into the ocean to be retrieved, refurbished, and prepared for another flight. Marshall Space Flight Center had the management responsibilities with (what was originally known as the) Thiokol Corporation as the prime contractor
Credit: NASA
Image Number: MSFC 7883821
Date: January 18, 1978