Jan. 25, 1987After testifying before the Rogers commission, Boisjoly was assigned to a team of Morton Thiokol engineers charged with redesigning the solid rocket booster (SRB). But, he said, he ...

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Morton Thiokol Inc., which once defended its diverse operations as ”a portfolio of businesses,” plans to separate itself into two businesses in a tax-free spinoff to shareholders. The s… ...

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 r… ...

As the Shuttle program got under way, Morton-Thiokol was contracted to produce the SRBs for the Space Shuttle in August of 1972, which saw McDonald among the engineers in charge of the Shuttle SRB ...

While Morton Thiokol and ATK had a rapid pace production schedule for SRB segments during the Shuttle era, the production schedule for SLS is considerably more relaxed given the anticipated four ...

What would you have done? c) Finally, put yourself in the role of Morton Thiokol ‘s CEO. Under what circumstances would you choose to override your professional workers’ expertise?

Roger Boisjoly was a booster rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol in Utah in January, 1986, when he and four colleagues became embroiled in the fatal decision to launch the Space ...

Morton Thiokol, the builder of the solid-rocket boosters, advised NASA that they believed the O-ring seals in the solid-rocket boosters would perform adequately in the cold.

A Morton Thiokol employee familiar with the company’s internal investigation said he did not believe his firm ever had tested the O rings to determine how they would react in cold.

Boisjoly was the other Thiokol engineer who spoke anonymously with NPR 30 years ago. He came to believe that he and Ebeling and their colleagues did all they could.

Despite this revelation to Morton Thiokol (predecessor to ATK), the reality of minimum operational temperature limits for SRB certified use was not readily understood by everyone one year and four ...