Focuses on the circumstances surrounding NASA's second source initiative for procuring shuttle solid rocket motors, NASA's plans to redesign the motor to resolve problems identified by the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger accident and to develop and maintain multiple production sources, and quality control and safety at the Morton Thiokol solid rocket motor manufacturing facility.
Space Shuttle: NASA's (National Aeronautics and Space Administration's) Procurement of Solid Rocket Booster Motors
1986
46 pages
Report
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English