NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

June Malone
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
(Phone: 256.544.0034)

Photo release: 06-031


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A two-minute static firing of a space shuttle technical evaluation motor was successfully completed March 9 at ATK Thiokol, a unit of Alliant Techsystems, Inc., in Promontory, Utah, north of Salt Lake City. The test included 26 specific objectives and used 89 instrumentation channels to collect and evaluate motor performance. Results will be published in a final report later this year. (ATK Thiokol)


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