Every once in a while, an extraordinary individual pops back into the public conscience that we haven’t heard from in years, ...

Morton Thiokol’s leaders took a caucus. It was time to make a “management decision,” they said. Half an hour later, they got back on the call and told the group they’d changed their minds.

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 ...

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. Photo: boxster / Canva Pro ...

Morton Thiokol made Challenger's booster rockets, and Boisjoly's comment was made during a teleconference with NASA engineers the evening before the shuttle's fateful launch. He could have said ...

Morton Thiokol made Challenger's booster rockets, and Boisjoly's comment was made during a teleconference with NASA engineers the evening before the shuttle's fateful launch.

Morton Thiokol would eventually have to make settlements, including a $3.5 million settlement with the father of astronaut Judith Resnik. The Fallen Patriots of Thiokol ...

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.

Give some credit to the aerospace industrial giant Morton Thiokol for finally coming to its senses and, if not offering a forthright apology, showing an element of common sense by default. The ...

Morton Thiokol traces its involvement with air bags to the 1960s, long before it got into rockets. The company does not make the bag but rather the inflator, or gas generator, that pushes the bag ...

Morton Thiokol Inc., which once defended its diverse operations as ”a portfolio of businesses,” plans to separate itself into two businesses in a tax-free spinoff to shareholders.