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Article: NASA Test Fires Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motor
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS
Contact: Michael Curie of NASA Headquarters, +1-202-358-4715,
michael.curie@nasa.gov, or Steve Roy of Marshall Space Flight
Center, +1-256-544-0034, steven.e.roy@nasa.gov
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., May 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Space
Shuttle Program on Thursday successfully conducted a test firing of
a space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor in Utah.
The test firing of Flight Verification Motor 2 evaluated possible
performance changes as motors age. Space shuttle solid rocket motors
are certified for flight for five years from their date of
manufacture. At more than seven years of age, the four-segment motor
tested Thursday is the oldest ever fired. The test ...