Ames team looks at glideback booster

1999-08-11T00:00:00

A NASA Ames team is studying a novel means of retrieving the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters (SRBs). It would use an oblique wing to enable the boosters to glide back autonomously to Kennedy Space Center for a controlled landing rather than splash down into the ocean for recovery.

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