Article: Morton Thiokol to conduct final qualification firing of redesigned space shuttle solid rocket motor. (includes fact sheet)

MORTON THIOKOL TO CONDUCT FINAL QUALIFICATION FIRING

OF REDESIGNED SPACE SHUTTLE SOLID ROCKET MOTOR

BRIGHAM CITY, Utah, Jan. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Morton Thiokol (NYSE: MTI) will conduct a full scale test firing of a Space Shuttle redesigned solid rocket motor on Jan. 17. The test is the sixth and final full-scale firing required to qualify the major design features of the redesigned solid rocket motor.

The 126-foot-long, 1.2-million-pound Qualification Motor-8 (QM-8) will undergo a full-duration horizontal test firing of two minutes. The 1 p.m. MST firing will take place in test bay T-97 about 25 miles west of Brigham City. Prior ...

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