Word: thiokol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fire and smoke streamed across the desert outside Brigham City, Utah, last week as Morton Thiokol successfully fired its redesigned booster rocket for NASA's shuttle fleet. With the test, the crippled shuttle program cleared its first major technical hurdle in resuming flights, now set for next summer...
...tests. Company engineers are now examining for charring or erosionthe revamped joints that connect segments of the booster. Those signs indicate leakage of burning gases, the problem that led to the Challenger explosion 19 months ago. More stringent testing lies ahead. Still, officials of the space agency and Morton Thiokol were ecstatic. Said NASA Associate Administrator Richard Truly: "We waited a long time to see this...
...scorched a Utah hillside last week. Jubilation was in order: the firing marked the first full- scale test of the space shuttle's revamped solid rocket booster since last year's Challenger explosion. After a government commission pinned the tragedy on faulty seals in the booster, manufactured by Morton Thiokol, the company returned to the drawing board. Last week's firing, the first of six, tested new electrical heaters and reinforcing bands on the booster's joints. "We've taken a real bashing by the press," said Morton Thiokol Engineer Allan McDonald, who heads the redesign. "This proves...
Since the disaster one engineer, Roger Boisjoly, has quit Morton Thiokol and brought lawsuits for more than $3 billion against the company in connection with the deaths of the seven shuttle crew members. However, Arnold Thompson, another who had argued for a delay, has stayed on "to get things flying again." Thompson's decision to hang in, hoping and working for better decisions in the future, reflects the tendency of most of corporate America. "Managers are paid to manage, and it's up to them to make the final decisions," says Thompson, implicitly accepting the dominance of the organization over...
Professor Kezios offers his students a stout principle for ethical dilemmas like the one at Morton Thiokol: "Raise hell, stand firm." But he acknowledges that such doctrine is easier said to students in school than done by them in the working world: "They don't have any clues as to how they are going to behave out there." In Los Angeles, Michael Josephson, a Loyola Marymount University law professor who has founded a new institute for ethical studies, is grappling with the same reality gap. "It's easy to say you want to make a lot of money and also...