• DOI:10.1109/mspec.1987.6448025
• Corpus ID: 26828360

The history of the flawed joint

@article{Boisjoly1987TheHO,
  title={The history of the flawed joint},
  author={Thiokol's Boisjoly and Thompson},
  journal={IEEE Spectrum},
  year={1987},
  volume={24},
  pages={39-44}
}

• Thiokol's Boisjoly, Thompson
• Published 1987
• Physics
• IEEE Spectrum

NASA began to solicit proposals for the design of a solid-fuel rocket motor for the space shuttle in July 1973. By the fall, NASA had received proposals from Aerojet Solid Propulsion Co., Lockheed Propulsion Co., Thiokol Inc. (later Morton-Thiokol Inc.), and United Technologies Corp.