Thiokol produces the Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motors and other defense and commercial solid rocket motors.

* 1959: Thiokol Huntsville produces CASTOR strap-on booster rocket, used on the Atlas rocket.

Reaction Motors powerplants propelled the X-1 and X-15 aircraft, and later Thiokol technologies were also used in the private Tier One manned spaceplane.

The AAM-N-6a was similar to the-6, but used a new Thiokol liquid-fuel rocket engine for improved performance.

The contractor for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters was Morton Thiokol ( now part of Alliant Techsystems ), for the external tank, Martin Marietta ( now Lockheed Martin ), and for the Space Shuttle main engines, Rocketdyne ( now Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, part of United Technologies ).

It is near the headquarters of ATK Thiokol, the company that created the solid rocket boosters for the Space Shuttle.

Despite layoffs over the past decade, much of Brigham City's economy relies on Thiokol, the creator of many missiles, as well as the solid rocket booster for the Space Shuttle.

After the SRBs were retrieved from the ocean following a launch, they were shipped by train back to ATK ( formerly Thiokol ) for refurbishment.

NASA's contract with Morton Thiokol, the contractor responsible for the solid rocket boosters, included a clause stating that in the event of a failure leading to " loss of life or mission ," Thiokol would forfeit $ 10 million of its incentive fee and formally accept legal liability for the failure.

After the Challenger accident, Thiokol agreed to " voluntarily accept " the monetary penalty in exchange for not being forced to accept liability.

The prime contractor for the SRBs and the manufacturer of the vital solid fuel rocket segments was the Thiokol Corporation of Brigham City, Utah.

CTEC, which stands for Cable Transportation Engineering Company, was the successor to Thiokol, a company which built 41 ski lifts between 1971 and 1977.

The TE-416 Tomahawk is a rocket developed by the American company Thiokol at the beginning of the 1960s for Sandia National Laboratories.

* 1958: Thiokol awarded contract to build the TU-122 rocket motor for the first stage of the LGM-30 Minuteman ICBM system.

* 1969: Thiokol awarded Army contract to manufacture 750, 000 Tripflares for Vietnam.

* 1974: Thiokol wins the contract to build the solid rocket booster ( SRB ) for the Space Shuttle ( Nov 29, 1973 )

* 2005, Thiokol wins the contract to produce the Ares I launch vehicle first stage for NASA's Project Constellation.

Thiokol also produced a variety of liquid and solid rocket motors for the US space program, including deorbit motors for the Mercury and Gemini programs, rocket stages and separation rocket motors for the Apollo program, motors for the Pioneer, Surveyor, Viking, Voyager, and Magellan missions, updated CASTOR boosters for the Delta rocket, and the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster.

These companies included Tucker Sno-Cat, Thiokol, KRISTI snowcat, Snow Trac, Bombardier and numerous other smaller companies.

The 1, 2-closo-dicarbadodecaboranes ( usually simply called carboranes ), were reported simultaneously by groups at Olin Corporation and the Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Corporation working under the U. S. Air Force and published in 1963.

Thiokol ( variously Thiokol Chemical Corporation, Morton-Thiokol Inc., Cordant Technologies Inc., Thiokol Propulsion, AIC Group, ATK Thiokol ; currently ATK Launch Systems Group ) is a U. S. corporation concerned initially with rubber and related chemicals, and later with rocket and missile propulsion systems.

Thiokol bags were first used in U. S. military aircraft, before being adapted to space exploration ( Mars Pathfinder bounced down on Mars on Thiokol airbags ) and automotive airbags.

The sweeping curve which connected to the east end of the Big Fill now passes a Thiokol rocket research and development facility.

" Thiokol " polymers arise when sodium polysulfide is treated with an alkyl dihalide.

It determined that the accident was due to a failure of rubber O-rings made by Morton Thiokol that provided a pressure seal in the aft field joint of the shuttle's right Solid Rocket Booster.

On February 3, 1971, a fire and explosion occurred at the Thiokol Chemical plant, located 12 miles southeast of Woodbine.

Thiokol Corporation moved operations to Redstone Arsenal from Maryland in the summer of 1949 to research and develop rocket propellants, while Rohm and Haas began work on rockets and jet propulsion.

Surface-to-Surface projects were the Honest John, Little John, Hawk, Lacrosse, and Corporal Type III ; the liquid-fueled Corporal Type III was soon canceled and the solid Thiokol fueled Sergeant project started.

Additionally, the local Autoliv ( formerly a part of Thiokol ) airbag plants also net Brigham City many jobs.

Skynet 1B was placed in a geostationary transfer orbit and was abandoned in transfer orbit ( 270 x 36058 km ) due to a failure of the Thiokol Star 37D apogee kick motor.

Ronald D. Dittemore ( right ) Ron D. Dittemore ( born April 13, 1952, Cooperstown, New York ) former shuttle program manager of NASA, is currently the president of ATK Launch Systems Group, formerly known as ATK Thiokol Propulsion, part of Alliant Techsystems ( ATK ), Inc.

Most salient was the failure of both NASA and its contractor, Morton Thiokol, to respond adequately to the design flaw.

Feynman's investigations also revealed that there had been many serious doubts raised about the O-ring seals by engineers at Morton Thiokol, which made the solid fuel boosters, but communication failures had led to their concerns being ignored by NASA management.

Crippen subsequently became president of Thiokol Propulsion where he served from December, 1996 to April, 2001.

Thiokol was the sole manufacturer of the reusable Solid Rocket Motor used to launch the NASA Space Shuttle, which will be adapted to the Space Launch System.

Since 2000 ATK has grown as a result of both internal expansion and a series of acquisitions, including Thiokol propulsion, the ordnance business of Boeing and CCI / Speer, an ammunition manufacturer, and Federal Ammunition.

During his interim away from NASA, Horowitz held a senior executive position with ATK Thiokol, the makers of the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters.

* 1949: Thiokol produce the TX-18 Falcon missile, the world's first solid-fueled missile system.

* 1957: Thiokol Huntsville builds XM33 Pollux missile

A Trident missile | Trident II ( D-5 ) FBM launches and fires its Thiokol solid rocket first stage.

Products made by the aerospace divisions of RMI and Thiokol include motors used in Subroc, the Pershing missile, the Peacekeeper missile, Poseidon missile, Minuteman missile, and the Trident I and Trident II missiles.