Status of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster

Abstract

The first Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters have been stacked on the Mobile Launch Platform at the Kennedy Space Center and are ready to be mated with the External Tank and Orbiter in preparation for the first Shuttle flight. This readiness is built upon a design within the state of the art and, to the maximum extent practicable, within the state of experience. Component qualification, subsystem verification, system checkout, and recovery tests are essentially complete and provide the basis for certifying the boosters for manned flight.