In January 1989, Massachusetts state trooper Andrew Palombo heard a strange complaint at Logan airport. A worker said a NASA ...

Robert Hunt, a Massachusetts man, masterfully impersonated figures like astronauts and Navy SEALs, starting with petty cons ...

Six months prior to the Challenger disaster, booster rocket engineer Roger Boisjoly had written to his managers at NASA contractor and Utah-based rocket manufacturer Morton Thiokol, warning of the ...

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.

Morton Thiokol made Challenger's booster rockets, and Boisjoly's comment was made during a teleconference with NASA engineers the evening before the shuttle's fateful launch. He could have said ...

"Away from goodness in the current data base." That's how Morton Thiokol staff engineer Roger Boisjoly, in a hearing investigating the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, said he described the ...

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.

Give some credit to the aerospace industrial giant Morton Thiokol for finally coming to its senses and, if not offering a forthright apology, showing an element of common sense by default. The ...

Morton Thiokol Inc. said Monday it has reached a ”preliminary understanding” to sell its downtown headquarters to Tishman Midwest Management Corp. and move to the developer`s Northweste… ...

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… ...

Morton Thiokol and four other booster companies already have submitted proposals for upgraded boosters, with Thiokol suggesting that it continue to build the redesigned Challenger-style booster.