While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s nail-biting time for the folks working at Thiokol Corp.’s rocket motor plant in Elkton, as the Pathfinder spacecraft zooms in on Mars. Pathfinder is NASA’s latest effort to e… ...

Thiokol Corp. will change its name on Thursday to Cordant Technologies Inc. as the company tries to shed its image as solely a government contractor. Ogden, Utah-based Thiokol’s products incl… ...

Allan McDonald, who directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, urged delaying the launch of the space shuttle before it exploded in 1986. He has died at age 83.

Thiokol has set its most ambitious expansion for next week: a merger with Reaction Motors Inc., a major maker of liquid-fuel rocket engines (TIME, May 27), owned 49% by Olin Mathieson Chemical ...

It was an unusually cold morning for Cape Canaveral, Fla.—too cold, warned the engineers of NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, builder of the shuttle’s solid rocket motors.

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 ...