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Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Drop Test Vehicle (SRB-DTV) with chutes open after release from NB-52B
 
Photo Number: EC79-10168
Photo Date: January 29, 1979
 
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Description:		 Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Drop Test Vehicle (SRB-DTV) with chutes open after release from NB-52B
 
Project
Description:		 NASA Dryden conducted Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) parachute recovery systems tests that used Dryden's NB-52B for the Drop Test Vehicle (DTV). The purpose of the tests, from June 1977 through 1978 and again from September 1983 - March 1985, were to validate the system to recover the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster casings once their propellant was exhausted.
 
NASA Photo by: NASA photo (copy negative)
 
Keywords: Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster Drop Test Vehicle, SRB-DTV, parachute recovery systems tests, NB-52B, B-52
 
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