While the fate of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket hangs in the balance, the agency is pushing ahead with tests of new ...

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 ...

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 motor ...

Thiokol made the booster rocket used on the shuttle. ”The scars are still there,” Thomas S. Russell, vice president of corporate development and strategic planning at Morton, ...

It’s nail-biting time for the folks working at Thiokol Corp.’s rocket motor plant in Elkton, as the Pathfinder spacecraft zooms in on Mars. Pathfinder is NASA’s latest effort to e… ...

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.

On the evening of Jan. 27, engineers from Morton Thiokol, including Boisjoly, gave an emergency presentation to NASA revealing concerns about the effect cold weather had on the rocket joints and ...

Building solid rocket boosters for NASA is a big chunk of Thiokol’s $845 million in annual sales and goes a long way toward keeping the company’s 4,100 employees busy. Comments: bberger@space ...

Thiokol has set its most ambitious expansion for next week: a merger with Reaction Motors Inc., a major maker of liquid-fuel rocket engines (TIME, May 27), owned 49% by Olin Mathieson Chemical ...

NASA’s latest rocket-launching endeavor, the Artemis program, ... Morton Thiokol has recommended to NASA that no Shuttle should launch when the temperature is below 53 Fahrenheit.