Building solid rocket boosters for NASA is a big chunk of Thiokol’s $845 million in annual sales and goes a long way toward keeping the company’s 4,100 employees busy. Comments: bberger@space ...

The company that built Challenger’s solid-fuel booster rockets ... FIRM SEEKS BOOSTER SEAL DATA MORTON THIOKOL ... are used to seal each of the three main joints in the 149-foot rocket boosters.

Morton Thiokol Inc., haunted by the Challenger space shuttle disaster two years ago, said Monday that it will not bid on a forthcoming NASA contract on a new shuttle booster rocket. The Chicago ...

Stand close enough to any official at Morton Thiokol Inc. and a sigh of relief and exasperation might be heard. Morton officials watched the latest test firing of the company`s solid fuel booster ...

A MORTON THIOKOL Inc. engineer who warned of problems with the Challenger's solid rocket booster O-rings six months before the disaster last January says the company has turned him into a "non ...

Morton Thiokol Inc., which built the booster rocket that touched off history’s worst space disaster, announced Monday that it would not bid for the contract to build a new, advanced rocket motor ...

Roger M. Boisjoly was an engineer for Morton Thiokol, the manufacturer of the solid-rocket boosters for the shuttles, and discovered a potential problem with O-rings. The O-rings were designed to ...

A 4 1/2-year-old space-shuttle booster rocket was test-fired by ATK Thiokol to determine the effects of age on the rocket motor components.

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new components needed to launch the vehicle toward the Moon. The latest test ...

Thiokol won the contract to build the Space Shuttle’s solid rocket boosters on November 20, 1973, and the Promontory facility has been designing, building, and testing some version of the SRB ...