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... for this day. (1MB PDF) NASA reported award of an $8.5 million contract to Thiokol Corporation for Caster IV auxiliary motors for the Delta launch vehicle, part of a fixed-price supplement to an existing contract being negotiated with Thiokol for 63 of these motors at an estimated price of $20.9 million, all to ...

... MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC announced that Morton Thiokol 's Wasatch Division near Brigham City, Utah; had successfully static-fired a new, lightweight version ... pounds. Two more of the filament-wound booster motors would be test fired by Motron Thiokol in the spring and summer of 1985. Also in the spring of 1985, flight motor ...

... 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 ... 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 ...

... , and reliable operation." According to officials involved in the decision to choose the Utah based Thiokol design, the least expensive bid; the fact that Senator Frank Moss, then chairman of the ... the University of Utah were all salient factors. NASA calculations, however, also pointed out that Thiokol needed minimal up front Government cash and deferred major costs to the latest possible date ...

... as further tightening the rein on NASA, believed that competition for the sole provider, Morton Thiokol , would equate to savings. Aerojet General said it was ready to build a seamless booster, a safer design. Congress also wanted NASA to eliminate some of the rules that favored Thiokol , such as requiring any second manufacturer to purchase nozzles for the rocket from them. (W ...

A number of senators expressed reservations that Morton Thiokol , Inc. remained the sole maker of NASA’s Shuttle booster rocket. Members of the Senate ... 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 ...

... , 1987. He replaced Dr. Burton I. Edelson. (NASA Release 87-18) NASA announced that Morton Thiokol , Inc., the builder of the booster rocket that caused the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, voluntarily ... . The company also agreed to replace the rockets lost in the accident. The agreement between Thiokol and NASA negated any lawsuits growing out of the January 28, 1986, accident that destroyed ...

... 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 ... 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 ...

... billion con-tract to build the proposed Space Shuttle Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (ASRM). Instead, Thiokol officials stated they would concentrate on building the current generation of redesigned solid rocket motors ...

... the best contractors on the space program, to Grumman Technical Services Division, Titusville, Florida, and Thiokol Corporation, Space Operations, Brigham City, Utah. Grumman provided hardware and support services to the integrated launch team at the Kennedy Space Center , Florida. Thiokol provided the redesigned solid rocket motor propulsion system that produced 80 percent of the thrust ...

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