One of the solid rocket boosters was hit by a door.
Previous flights had used none, two, or three solid boosters, but never five.
Once you light a solid booster you can't turn it off if something goes wrong.
The solid boosters burned for 120 seconds before being discarded.
Three Castor-1 solid rocket boosters were clustered around the first stage.
The video was near perfect until the two solid rocket boosters were jettisoned.
The chemical is the main ingredient on the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters.
He played a leadership role in engineering the shuttle's main engine and solid rocket boosters.
The cause of the explosion was a O-ring failure in the right solid rocket booster.
The 44P model with 4 solid boosters has a payload of 3465 kg to the same orbit.