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Item Relisted! Item Gone: FS/FT Space Shuttle Program painted metgal sign - ASRM Lockheed Aerodyne

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Large, Painted Sign from the ASRM Program (Adavanced Solid Rocket Motor) SRM was the Lockheed / Rocketdyne / Rust project to build improved Solid Rocket Boosters for the Space Shuttle Program (to permanently fix the Thiokol SRB O-Ring problem).

This is a large (long) painted sign (shown next to a 4 x 8 sheet of plywood for perspective). Sign would have been haanging in the IUKA Miss. facility or at Lockheed, Rocket Dyne, KSC or Houston.

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Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) Project (1988–1993)

In 1988–1989, NASA was planning on replacing the post-Challenger SRBs with a new Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM) to be built by Aerojet[28] at a new facility, designed by subcontractor, RUST International, on the location of a cancelled Tennessee Valley Authority nuclear power plant, at Yellow Creek, Mississippi (Yellow Creek Nuclear Plant).

The ASRM would be slightly wider (the booster's diameter would be increased from 146 inches to 150 inches) and have 200,000 pounds of extra propellant, and have produced additional thrust in order to increase shuttle payload by about 12,000 lb,[28] so that it could carry modules and construction components to the ISS. They were expected to be safer than the post-Challenger SRBs.[29] The initial $1.2 Bn contract was to be for 12 motors, with an option for another 88 at maybe another $1 bn.[28] Morton Thiokol would build the nozzles.[28] The first test flight was expected around 1994.[28]

The ASRM program was cancelled in 1993 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Solid_Rocket_Booster#
 

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