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