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Many Thiokol workers lived in Brigham City and the town was taking the disaster hard.
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Consider the debates within Morton-Thiokol and NASA the night before the ill-fated Challenger shuttle launch in 1986.
FORBES: Jim Collins's ''How the Mighty Fall.''
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The night before liftoff, these two Thiokol engineers, along with several colleagues, tried to convince NASA to postpone liftoff.
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In the meantime, Gudenkauf and I worked through a directory of Thiokol employees.
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Vandals had scrawled the words "Morton Thiokol Murderers" on a railroad overpass on the road out to the Thiokol plant.
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Three weeks after the launch, on Feb. 19, I headed to Brigham City, Utah, the town closest to Thiokol's remote plant.
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As I sat with that despondent Thiokol engineer in his home in Utah, my colleague Daniel Zwerdling stood outside a hotel room door in Huntsville, Alabama.
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They worked for Morton Thiokol (now ATK Thiokol), the Utah-based NASA contractor which produced the solid rocket motors that lifted space shuttles from their launch pads.
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Some of those Thiokol engineers expected o-ring failures at liftoff.
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The Thiokol managers pressed their engineers to reverse themselves.
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He served on the boards of several companies, including Marathon Oil, Learjet, Cinergy, Taft Broadcasting, United Airlines, Eaton Corporation, AIL Systems, Thiokol, and Space Industries International, a company that I co-founded.
FORBES: Neil Armstrong's Immortal Footprint
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At first, the Thiokol managers backed their engineers.
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Another Thiokol engineer was inside.
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