An upgraded version of one of the solid rocket boosters being used for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) experienced an ...

The real solid rocket boosters and external tank, which were in use throughout the space shuttle program since its first launch on April 12, 1981, provided the fuel to thrust the orbiters into space.

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new ...

NASA followed last week's low-key engine test with the test-firing of a solid-fueled booster at Northrop Grumman's rocket ...

The first solid rocket boosters stacked inside NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building since the Space Shuttle are on a mission to the moon.

A video from cameras aboard the Space Shuttle’s Solid Rocket Booster system, from launch to landing. The clip is taken from NASA’s Ascent: Commemorating Space Shuttle documentary, and has had ...

Two solid rocket boosters perched on top of mobile launcher platform are being moved by crawler-transporter at Kennedy Space Center on October 27, 2010 from the Vehicle Assembly Building’s (VAB ...

In this film, taken a couple of years ago from a rocket booster on the space shuttle Discovery, you can see what it’s like to blast into space, shooting fire and whirling back into the upper ...

A piece of a rocket that has made eight trips to space has a new home, outside The Leonardo museum. A section of the solid rocket motor case that was part of launching eight NASA space shuttle ...

When the world's largest solid rocket motor is ignited in Utah this week, it will not leave the ground, but it will fire with components that have a long spaceflight history. The static fire on ...

STS-126 is First Mission To Deploy a Full Flight Set of 16 ATK-Designed Booster Separation Motors Alliant Techsystems’ Reusable Solid Rocket Motors (RSRM) successfully ignited earlier today to ...

A solid-propellant booster like those that will help launch NASA's new Space Launch System moon rocket was test fired at Northrop Grumman's Promontory, Utah, facility Wednesday. It was the sixth ...