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Article: Shuttle rocket motor tested
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 2, 2008
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PROMONTORY, Box Elder County -- NASA strapped its oldest Space
Shuttle rocket motor to a concrete slab Thursday and lit the match,
initiating a two-minute burn.
Rocket scientists conducted 32 tests during the firing, primarily
checking the motor's performance compared to the performance of a
new motor. The tests were done while a sizable crowd of onlookers
gathered 1 1/2 miles away watched the nozzle glow orange and thick,
brown smoke billow for several seconds before the roaring sound
caught up with them.
"Awesome," was the single word people used to describe the event.
Time will tell whether test results vary from an identically
designed motor burned on the test pad several years ago, ...