Space Shuttle Boosters Point to the Sky for the First Time in Over a Decade The 116-foot-long motors are standing vertically at the California Science Center, marking progress in the creation of a ...

The Space Shuttle was an engineering marvel that changed the face of space exploration, and understanding how it launched is ...

This article was originally featured on The Drive. When the spaceplane’s landing gear struck the runway on July 21, 2011, it marked the end of the line for the Space Shuttle. An incredible ...

The Artemis I mission’s rocket engines and boosters have direct ties to Columbia, Challenger and each of the other shuttles, and even one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts.

Science Center officials said the shuttle’s rocket booster assembly has been completed with addition of the “forward assembly” — or cone-shaped tops — to the boosters. (Wednesday, Dec. 6 ...

The solid rocket boosters that will be installed at the science center are authentic, and their parts have been used or reused in a number of space shuttle launches — from the fifth shuttle ...

Each Solid Rocket Motor, donated by Northrup Grumman, is over 12 feet in diameter and 116 feet in length. Each shuttle motor weighs just over 100,000 pounds.

This—plus the incorporation of a disposable fuel tank system that was taken from another competing shuttle design, the Lockheed Star Clipper—meant that the more expensive, piloted booster ...

In fact, NASA data shows each of the white nose cone segments atop the Artemis I boosters flew on over 10 shuttle missions as far back as STS-41G, a 1984 flight of space shuttle Challenger that ...