Morton Thiokol Inc., haunted by the Challenger space shuttle disaster two years ago, said Monday that it will not bid on a forthcoming NASA contract on a new shuttle booster rocket. The Chicago-based ...

Fifty-three years ago, the ground quaked in Woodbine, Georgia. The sound was unmistakable and the fallout unimaginable for the workers and families of the Thiokol Chemical plant where a blast killed ...

Shuttle booster maker Morton Thiokol Inc. disagrees with a presidential commission’s finding that the company reversed its opposition to the Challenger launch because that’s what NASA wanted, a ...

February 1971, workers sift through the wreckage caused by a series of explosions at the Thiokol munitions factory near the Georgia coast. The facility manufactured tripflares used in the Vietnam War.

Fifteen years ago today, Savannahians learned that sugar dust could kill. A series of dust-related explosions at the Imperial Sugar refinery in Port Wentworth killed 14 workers, injured 40 others and ...

The company that built Challenger’s solid-fuel booster rockets has asked the maker of seals used in the rockets for information on how cold weather would affect the doughnut-shaped devices. Engineers ...

Just after 10:53 a.m. on Feb. 3, 1971, the ground trembled in the small city of Woodbine, Georgia. As far away as Jacksonville, residents felt the ground sway beneath them. In Brunswick, just 15 miles ...

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Tripwire, a production of the Savannah Morning News, investigates the 1971 chemical explosion at the Thiokol Chemical Corp. plant in Woodbine, Georgia. The blast killed 29 people, predominately Black ...

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 will ...