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 ...

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… ...

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.

Many Thiokol workers lived in Brigham City and the town was taking the disaster hard. Vandals had scrawled the words "Morton Thiokol Murderers" on a railroad overpass on the road out to the ...

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 ...

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.

Allan J. McDonald in 2015. An engineer at Morton Thiokol, the contractor responsible for the space shuttle Challenger’s booster rockets, he expressed concern about the rockets’ safety before ...

At first blush, the action of Morton Thiokol’s stock would seem to be a ringing affirmation of market efficiency—the notion that stock prices quickly and accurately respond to new information.

Three of the four vice presidents for shuttle booster-maker Morton Thiokol who overruled warnings from their engineers not to launch Challenger in cold weather are retiring early or are being ...

Charles Locke, who died Aug. 4, headed a company that made Morton’s table salt and aerospace equipment. He was in a difficult position after investigators blamed rocket boosters made by his firm ...

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?

McDonald, a Morton-Thiokol engineer, was director of the program that made the rocket boosters that included sets of o-rings between the rocket sections for the Space Shuttle.