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MASSIVE FLIGHT NASA KSC Space Shuttle AFT SRB FRANGIBLE SEPARATION BOLT Hardware
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You are viewing a MASSIVE FLIGHT NASA KSC Space Shuttle AFT Solid Rocket Booster FRANGIBLE Piston Actuated SEPARATION BOLT-Pyrotechnic fastener from and early Orbiter flight
.
Pacific Scientific Energetic
manufactured this device from a high strength tool steel alloy.
I purchased this
Artifact
at a NASA Kennedy Space Center Auction in a lot of Flight Space Hardware in the 1990's.
The cratered surface shows evidence of the tremendous explosive forces needed to separate this massive fastening device which was designed to secure the NASA Space Shuttle SRB until Solid Rocket Motor Burnout.
The basic dimensions are: 6.25 inches long by 5.75 inches in diameter at the round center section and 4.75 inches wide at the Hexagonal Nut Flat Surfaces.
It weighs over 36 pounds. (A great out of this world Doorstop.)
The Nomenclature reads:
AFT SEPARATION BOLT
55340/10302-0001 801
MANUFACTURED in 1985.
Manufacturer 06331/ 822141-1
LOT-SERIAL NUMBER AAN-1000755
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