[AR] Re: Valley Tech throttleable restartable solids (!)

  • From: Nels Anderson <nels.anderson@xxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 09:40:43 -0400

Speaking of the Shuttle and solids, I vaguely recall having read
somewhere that in the mid-1960's a corporate predecessor of Morton
Thiokol (UTC?) suffered an explosion while testing a large, monolithic
solid and thereafter switched to segmented solids.  Is there any truth
to my recollection?

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