In 1988, Howard Berkes went back to Morton Thiokol to see what lessons were learned from the Challenger explosion, and how the company had changed in response. Berkes Thiokol Safety Report Toggle ...

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 ...

A new book sheds light on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, ... On the evening of Jan. 27, engineers from Morton Thiokol, ...

Roger Boisjoly was a senior engineer at Morton-Thiokol, the manufacturing company that built the solid rocket boosters for the space shuttle. Bob Ebeling was his manager. Advertisement ...

For Morton Thiokol, lowering its public profile has not been easy. Once known most readily for its table salt, Morton Thiokol became notorious two years ago when the Challenger space shuttle ...

From the archives: NASA's Challenger mistakes 14:30. It was a cold January morning in 1986. ... Boisjoly left Morton Thiokol soon after the accident, and Ebeling retired.

After his reinstatement at Morton Thiokol, Mr. McDonald played a principal role in a redesign of the booster rockets. He retired in 2001 as a vice president at the company.

Morton Thiokol’s leaders took a caucus. It was time to make a “management decision,” they said. Half an hour later, they got back on the call and told the group they’d changed their minds.

McDonald was a 26-year veteran at Morton Thiokol, the contractor responsible for the shuttle’s booster rockets, when he arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida a few days before Jan. 28 ...

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.

A company scientist said Friday that Morton Thiokol asked for data on the seals a few days after Challenger exploded. Morton Thiokol “wanted background information on the O rings,” said the ...