#TBT On July 21, 2022, @NASA and @NorthropGrumman teams conducted a solid rocket booster test – Flight Support Booster-2 Test – a critical step in bringing humanity back to the Moon.⁣ ⁣ Ground tests are performed horizontally to prevent the boosters from launching during the test, which lasted over two minutes and generated 3.6 million pounds of thrust. A pair of five-segment solid rocket boosters will produce more than 75% of the initial thrust for the #Artemis I Space Launch System rocket.⁣ ⁣ Image description: Small grey and white buildings lie in front of a white rocket laid horizontally in the bottom left of this photo. The rocket generates a massive bright yellow jet of fire, resulting in a brown plume of smoke and dust rising from the lower center to the top of the picture.⁣ ⁣ Credit: Northrop Grumman⁣ ⁣ #Rocket #SpaceLaunchSystem #Test #STEM #NASA