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, ...

Morton Thiokol spokesmen would not comment Friday. A NASA spokesman said that according to design specifications, the seals should have withstood the cold before launch.

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. The spinoff ...

Gerald Mason, 59, who headed Morton Thiokol’s space division in Brigham City, Utah, at the time of the Challenger accident, sent a letter to employees announcing his decision to retire June 30.

Morton Thiokol had even established an investigative team in the fall of 1985 to look into the O-ring problem. Boisjoly is still on the Morton Thiokol payroll but he is not working, he said in a ...

The night before the launch, Ebeling and four other engineers at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol had tried to stop the launch. Their managers and NASA overruled them.

Engineers at Morton Thiokol had raised concerns about the o-rings for years up until the day before the launch when the threat of cold weather caused even more consternation, but a poorly ...

Allan McDonald, who directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, urged delaying the launch of the space shuttle before it exploded in 1986. He has died at age 83.

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 ...

Boisjoly left Morton Thiokol soon after the accident, and Ebeling retired. Both were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. Boisjoly died in 2012.

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. Advertisement ...

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.