Overall view of the three aft skirts.
As can be seen, all three aft skirts are missing panels, and based on the aerial view, it appears
that none of the three aft skirts were particularly complete. My initial
though was that they scavenged parts from all three to make a single aft skirt
for display on their
SRB, but a bit of research upon returning home showed that they
shipped in a complete aft skirt for the SRB display.
For additional information on the Shuttle SRBs, see the Kennedy Space Center's
Solid
Rocket Boosters page in their NSTS
News Reference or this SRB exploded view
diagram.
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