Being from Utah I know this state is home to the Morton Thiokol Corporation, the company that manufactures the solid rocket boosters for … On a late fall weekend while traveling down State Route 83 towards the Golden Spike National Historic Site I noticed a sign that said "rocket display". Other defense and propulsions systems are developed, built, and tested here including ICBM rocket engines.

Thiokol builds the NASA space shuttle rocket motors at this sprawling isolated facility near the Promontory Mountains.

Thiokol Promontory Complex (Google Maps). Utah engineers' warning was ignored before Challenger explosion 30 years ago . BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (AP) _ Nearly 100,000 pounds of rocket fuel in an MX missile section exploded in flames at a Morton Thiokol Inc. plant Tuesday, and four workers died as fire consumed the building and a fifth died of burns later, company officials said. Morton Thiokol's experts said cold temperatures in January 1986 could trigger a "catastrophe of the highest order," but they were overruled by NASA. The fire erupted at 6:20 a.m. in a strategic section of the company's Wasatch Operations, 25 miles west of Brigham City.

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