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Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs)

Explore everything about Solid Rocket Boosters in the Shuttle Reference Manual. Find out how they provide the main thrust to lift the Space Shuttle off the pad. Learn about all of the other systems and instruments that the Solid Rocket Boosters utilize in order to operate.

Read NASA Facts Online to learn about the Solid Rocket Boosters and the recovery ships that are used to retrieve them following launch.

Learn about the Solid Rocket Boosters while viewing a photograph of SRB and using a Space Shuttle clickable map produced by Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS).

Enter the NASA Human Space Flight page to read an overview of the Solid Rocker Boosters.

Go to Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Liftoff to Learning to view a drawing of the Solid Rocket Boosters.

Learn all about Solid Rocker Boosters on the spaceKids website. View photos and movies, play games, and have all of your questions answered by the experts. Get the latest on space, missions, news and the solar system. You can also read some funny space jokes and much, much more!!

The Space Shuttle Payload Information Source has some facts about the Solid Rocket Boosters. You can also take a really cool virtual tour of the Space Shuttle program, and learn about unique capabilities of the Space Shuttle.

Explore a neat website about the Space Shuttle (including Solid Rocket Boosters) created by students who participated in the 1999 Summer Internet Explorers at Iowa State University.

View a cool diagram and pictures of the Solid Rocket Boosters on the web site of former Flight Dynamics Officer Roger Balettie. Read information about their thrust and the size.