Seeking to preserve a program that has been its biggest revenue producer for some 25 years, ATK Thiokol is pitching the giant solid-rocket boosters it builds for NASA’s space shuttle as the ...

The company that built Challenger’s solid-fuel booster rockets has asked the maker of seals used in the rockets for information on how cold weather would affect the doughnut-shaped devices. E… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new components needed to launch the vehicle toward the Moon. The latest test ...

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 mo… ...

Officials are investigating an unexpected explosion that occurred during a solid rocket booster test in Utah last week, ...

PROMONTORY, Utah—Northrop Grumman and NASA on June 26 conducted the first test of its Booster Obsolescence Life Extension solid rocket motor amid uncertainty about the overall future of the Space ...

Promontory is about 75 miles northwest of Salt Lake City and is the same location where Morton Thiokol tested the solid rocket boosters that powered the Space Shuttle fleet from 1981 to 2011.

These boosters were designed and built at the former Thiokol facility in Promontory. Via several name changes, splits, and merges, Northrop Grumman now owns the SRB [solid rocket booster] system.