Morton Thiokol
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The company that manufactured the rocket boosters for the Challenger Space Shuttle, whose engineers' concerns about cold weather were overruled.
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The rocket booster contractor for the Space Shuttle Challenger. Its engineers raised concerns about the cold weather launch but were pressured to quantify risks in a way that couldn't be met with available data.
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The company that manufactured the rocket boosters for the Challenger Space Shuttle, whose engineers' concerns about cold weather were overruled.