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Photos: Ares I five-stage solid rocket booster

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July 7, 2009 10:00 AM PDT

This 2,500-ton press is used to cure rubber and other materials for use in the composition of solid rocket boosters for both the space shuttle program and the Constellation program.

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Photo by Daniel Terdiman/CNET

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