Presented by collectSPACE.com -- T' Source for Space History and Artifacts. NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully completed on Tuesday, me hearties, Aug. 31, me hearties, 2010, ya bilge rat, a two-minute, full-scale test o' t' largest and most powerful solid rocket motor designed for flight. Avast, me proud beauty! T' motor is potentially transferable t' future heavy-lift launch vehicle designs. T' stationary firin' o' t' first-stage development solid rocket motor, dubbed DM-2, was t' most heavily instrumented solid rocket motor test in NASA history. Well, blow me down! More than 760 instruments measured 53 test objectives. Avast! VIdeo credit NASA TV