PHOENIX--When the shuttle Challenger blew up, the explosion lit a fuse in Roger Boisjoly's conscience. A structural engineer for Morton Thiokol Inc., the firm that later bore blame for the disaster, ...
A year later, the Space Shuttle Challenger would launch under similar conditions and be lost. Roger Boisjoly, an engineer at Morton Thiokol, which manufactured the Space Shuttle SRBs, later told a ...
On Jan. 27, the night before the Challenger launch, engineers at Morton Thiokol, the rockets’ manufacturer, pleaded against proceeding if the temperature fell below 53 degrees; they feared that ...
Engineers at Morton Thiokol had raised concerns about the ... In a conference call with NASA officials the night before Challenger was scheduled to launch, senior engineers including Allan J.