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Kennedy Space Center, Fla. — In the Vehicle Assembly Building, Senior Technician Kevin Reagan, with United Space Alliance, prepares one of two bolt catchers for installation on orbiter Discovery’s External Tank. A bolt catcher is a vertical bolt mechanism at the forward end of the External Tank that attaches each booster to the tank. At approximately two minutes into launch, SRB separation begins when pyrotechnic devices fire to break the 25-inch, 62-pound steel bolts.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-05pd-0382. NASA/KSC, 2005-03-10. Public domain. ID: 05pd0382.
