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KSC-00pp0858
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Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, the forward section of a solid rocket booster (SRB) sits on top of the rest of the stack for mating. The forward section of each booster, from nose cap to forward skirt contains avionics, a sequencer, forward separation motors, a nose cone separation system, drogue and main parachutes, a recovery beacon, a recovery light, a parachute camera on selected flights and a range safety system. Each SRB weighs approximately 1.3 million pounds at launch.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-00pp0858. NASA/KSC, 2000-06-29. Public domain. ID: KSC-00pp0858.
