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... -duration test firing of NASA's redesigned Space Shuttle solid rocket motor was conducted at Morton Thiokol 's Space Operations facility near Brigham City, Utah. The test was part of the Shuttle ... the fired motor, NASA and Morton Thiokol officials declared the test an apparent success. The exercise involved the first use of a new test stand at Morton Thiokol . One remaining full-duration test, Production ...

... Morton Thiokol announced that it would divide its operations into two companies: Morton International, Inc. and Thiokol Corporation. Morton International would include the company's salt, specialty chemicals, and automotive airbag operations, whereas Thiokol would include ...

... substantive improvements in flight safety, reliability, and performance over the current SRMs produced by contractor Morton Thiokol , Inc. The ASRM design considered by NASA would be an advanced version of the segmented ... ) facility and that the contract be subjected to competitive bidding. In response to protests by Morton Thiokol and the Utah congressional delegation, led by Senator Jake Gam, NASA altered the proposal to ...

... solid rocket motor (ASRM). The ASRM, which would replace the current Shuttle SRMs built by Morton Thiokol , would be a next-generation solid fuel propulsion system that would use an elongated single ... orbiters. Lockheed and GenCorp would eventually replace Morton Thiokol as prime contractors for Shuttle solid rock-et propulsion. A faulty field joint on one of Thiokol 's segmented boosters was blamed for the ...

... , United Technologies ' Chemical Systems Division, and Atlantic Research Corp. NASA also had a proposal from Morton Thiokol , the current sole-source producer, and would not make a final decision until later in ... " and that in the interim NASA would proceed with the next buy of SRMs from Morton Thiokol . Agency officials expected it would take about four years to qualify a second source and ...

... heard by the President's Commission, NASA manager Larry Mulloy stated that objections made by Morton Thiokol engineers to halt liftoff seemed illogical, but added that had he known that all of ... had little data to demonstrate this, and insisted that this opposition in no way pressured Morton Thiokol management to reverse the recommendation of its engineers. (Official Transcript Proceedings Before the Presidential Commission ...

A number of senators expressed reservations that Morton Thiokol , Inc. remained the sole maker of NASA’s Shuttle booster rocket. Members of the Senate ... other industries to redesign Shuttle rockets, the Agency appeared locked into using rockets designed by Morton Thiokol , Inc. (NY Times, Jan 23/87; WSJ, Jan 23/87) 1987 January 1987 January Jan ...

... of an MX missile containing nearly 100,000 pounds of rocket propellant exploded at a Morton Thiokol , Inc. plant killing five workers. The explosion at the company's Wasatch Operations plant, 25 ... fourth major accident at the plant. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. Morton Thiokol also was the manufacturer of the Space Shuttle 's booster rocket. (NY Times, Dec 30 ...

... Morton Thiokol paid $7,735,000 in cash and annuities to settle all claims with the families of four of the crew members who died in the explosion of the Shuttle Challenger . Thiokol ... . Scobee , Ellison Onizuka , Gregory B. Jarvis, and Sharon Christa McAuliffe . Settlements had been reached among Thiokol and two other families-those of Judith Resnik and Ronald E. McNair -with no Government ...

... ( MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC ) prime contractor for Space Shuttle solid-fuel rocket booster motors, Morton Thiokol 's Wasatch Division, successfully static fired today a new lightweight version of that motor at ... that motor, which contained major sections made from graphite epoxy materials manufactured by Thiokol 's subcontractor, Hercules, Inc. Thiokol would perform a final qualification static test of the flight version of the ...

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