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Topic: SRB Segments
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Tom
Member Posts: 1127
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted April 11, 2006 06:49 PM
   
I recall reading that an SRB segment from STS-1 was used on the "return to flight" mission of Discovery on STS-114. Anyone know which section that was?
Thanks.
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 23493
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted April 12, 2006 06:03 AM
From STS-1 artifacts, 25 years later: quote:
Though Columbia is no longer flying, parts of the STS-1 launch vehicle continue to lift other orbiters skyward. The white-painted External Tank was purposely left to reenter and break apart after its use (as is the case with all tanks) but the twin solid rocket boosters — the first used for a manned space flight — were recovered and reused. Most recently, the uppermost cylinder of the left booster that launched the return to flight mission after Columbia's loss, STS-114, could be traced back to the April 1981 mission.
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Tom
Member Posts: 1127
From: New York
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted April 12, 2006 03:03 PM
Just what I was looking for.
Thanks, Robert.
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