Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...

Marshall Space Flight Center also came to control three of the primary elements of the space shuttle: the main engines on the orbiter, the twin solid rocket boosters and the external fuel tank ...

Marshall Space Flight Center also came to control three of the primary elements of the space shuttle: the main engines on the orbiter, the twin solid rocket boosters and the external fuel tank.

Roger Boisjoly, a staff engineer with a mechanical engineering degree from UMass Lowell, worked for Morton Thiokol, the NASA aerospace contractor that built the solid rocket boosters for the Shuttle.

Millions believed in the space-shuttle program, in technological progress, in American ingenuity. The Challenger disaster proved them wrong.

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.

A thick cloud of engine exhaust, solid rocket booster plume and expanding gas fill the sky above the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Aerojet’s Merger With L3Harris Is Crucial To Preserving Competition In Large Solid Rocket Motors By Loren Thompson, Senior Contributor.

Allan McDonald, the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for defense contractor Morton Thiokol, has a piece of paper before him. The paper says the Challenger shuttle is safe ...