What were the benefits of the Space Shuttle using solid rocket boosters? I know that there were more bad things to come from the use of SRBs than good, but I'm curious
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March Field Air Museum In Riverside, CA - SRB - Solid Rocket Booster, United Space Alliance & ATK Thiokol Propulsion
Blast From The Past: Space Shuttle Program - This illustration is a cutaway of the solid rocket booster (SRB) sections with callouts. The Shuttle's two SRB's are the largest solids ever built
![Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters and External Tank on display at Kennedy Space Center – Stock Editorial Photo © PeterEtchells #101854400 Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters and External Tank on display at Kennedy Space Center – Stock Editorial Photo © PeterEtchells #101854400](https://st2.depositphotos.com/2219730/10185/i/950/depositphotos_101854400-stock-photo-space-shuttle-solid-rocket-boosters.jpg)
Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters and External Tank on display at Kennedy Space Center – Stock Editorial Photo © PeterEtchells #101854400
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Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster (Space Shuttle SRB), a Morton Thiokol (ATK) Rocket Display aka ATK
![NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) in 2011, "attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters atop a crawler-transporter, is ready for its slow move from High Bay 3 in the NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) in 2011, "attached to its external fuel tank and solid rocket boosters atop a crawler-transporter, is ready for its slow move from High Bay 3 in the](https://images-assets.nasa.gov/image/KSC-2011-2212/KSC-2011-2212~orig.jpg)