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How do we do Solid Rocket Booster retrieval?

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After the Solid Rocket Boosters have splashed down out in the ocean because those parachutes have let

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them down, we have to send out a couple of our ships in the NASA Navy -- either the Freedom Star or the

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Liberty Star -- and what they'll do is, they'll pull up beside the Solid Rocket Booster,

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they'll actually send some divers down to the bottom and they install a plug, and then we pump some of the water

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out that's gotten inside. And the booster goes from floating like this to what we call "log mode."

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The ships hook up to the Solid Rocket Boosters, tow them back out here to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,

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where we lift them up out of the water. We clean them, inspect them, take them apart and put them on rail cars

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and send them back to our friends in Utah at Thiokol Corporation where they refill them with solid rocket propellant.

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They send them back to us, and we reuse the Solid Rocket Boosters. And that's how retrieval goes.

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