The Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster was the first solid-propellant rocket to be used for primary propulsion on a vehicle used for human spaceflight. The two SRBs provided 85% of the Space Shuttle's
Two Space Shuttle SRBs on the crawler-transporter in preparation for the launch of STS-134
One of the two SLS Block I SRBs for Artemis I
Static test firing, 1978.
Sections of the SRB filled with propellant being connected for the STS-134 mission
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The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration as part of the Space Shuttle
Discovery lifts off at the start of the STS-120 mission.
Columbia undergoing installation of its ceramic tiles
Enterprise during the Approach and Landing Tests
Columbia launching on STS-1