IMAGE 100_199\175.Lbm,The space shuttle in the configuration in which it leaves the launch pad, with the orbiter atop the external fuel tank, to which the SRBs are attached.
IMAGE 700_799\704.Lbm,Two minutes into the shuttle mission, the twin SRBs separate, leaving the orbiter and external tank to continue skywards.
IMAGE 700_799\783.Lbm,SRB being tested after redesign following the Challenger disaster in January 1986.
IMAGE 1900_99\993.Lbm,The giant eight-track crawler begins its slow journey back to the VAB after depositing on the launch pad the shuttle stack of orbiter, external tank and SRBs, and mobile launch platform.
IMAGE 500_599\522.Lbm,Building one of the twin SRBs for the shuttle in the VAB at the Kennedy Space Center. (STS-26)
IMAGE 600_699\640.Lbm,Technicians at the Kennedy Space Center inspect a segment that will be assembled into one of the SRBs for the STS-27 mission.
IMAGE 900_999\903.Lbm,A minute or so after lift-off of the shuttle, all that can be seen is the column of smoke and steam spewed out by the SRBs.
IMAGE 0_99\88.Lbm,Two minutes after the shuttle lifts off, the SRBs are cut loose from the external tank, leaving the orbiter's main engines to power it into space.
IMAGE 1700_99\796.Lbm,After a successful lift-off on April 4, 1983, Challenger's SRBs separated two minutes into the flight.
IMAGE 1700_99\782.Lbm,One of the SRBs from the STS-5 shuttle parachuting back to Earth.
IMAGE 1900_99\989.Lbm,As the SRB's exhaust fizzles out, a drogue parachute deploys.
IMAGE 1900_99\990.Lbm,Three huge main parachutes brake the falling SRB so that it will make a gentle splashdown at sea.
IMAGE 0_99\31.Lbm,The recovery ship Liberty tows one of the SRBs towards Cape Canaveral after the first shuttle mission on April 13, 1981.
IMAGE 900_999\909.Lbm,A team from one of the recovery ships boats out to attach tow cables to one of the SRBs that has parachuted back to Earth after the STS-2 lift-off.
IMAGE 600_699\669.Lbm,In the early days of the shuttle era, fears that the acid fumes from SRBs during lift-off would damage paint work prompted some workers at the Kennedy Space Center to cocoon their cars in plastic.
