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Space Shuttle Projects
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The towing ship, Liberty, towed a recovered solid rocket booster (SRB) for the STS-5 mission to Port Canaveral, Florida. The recovered SRB would be inspected and refurbished for reuse. The Shuttle's SRB's and solid rocket motors (SRM's) are the largest ever built and the first designed for refurbishment and reuse. Standing nearly 150-feet high, the twin boosters provide the majority of thrust for the first two minutes of flight, about 5.8 million pounds.
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Credit lineSpace Shuttle Projects. NASA/MSFC, 1982-11-01. Public domain. ID: 8330199.
![POST-LAUNCH (SOLID ROCKET BOOSTER [SRB]) - STS-1 - FL](https://thumbs.arkivism.com/nasa-S81-30953.jpg)
