[Talisker]

I read that making big boosters isn’t a problem - managing the vibration resonances as it fires is the problem. They can rip the rocket to pieces.

[ThomasThomas]

Did they really mean to say.. “Watch the EXPLOSIVE action”?

[Ignatz]

Just wait until Obama sees THIS on the news!
Oh man! He’s gonna be pissed!
NASA is supposed to be doing Muslim outreach, not this science-y, rocket-y, stuff.

[NYRepublican72]

We still have a space program? Oh how we’ve lost our way under Obama.

[Noob1999]

Does this one have a made in Russia label on it, like all those going to the Space Station?

[Drago]

Solid rocket boosters & Utah...Morton-Thiokol must be “Orbital-ATK” now. Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiokol

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark.

[Prospero]

this is another static test of the five-section SRB's. The Shuttle variation of the solids were of four sections. This isn't any real test of the first-stage liquid-fueled Space Launch System (SLS) engines. The only new rocket engine in the SLS configuration is the J-2X, essentially now "in the can at Stennis - the newly-designed equivalent of the Saturn V third stage engine.

I don't know where they are with the Orion SM engine, now apparently called the "Orion European Service Module." though because it was the same components used in the ESA ATV program, I suppose one could claim it too was now "in the can."

Quite a design committee, though not necessarily built by the lowest bidder.