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University of Utah ( MS) Allan James McDonald (July 9, 1937 – March 6, 2021) was an USA engineer, aerospace consultant, author [1] and the director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project for Morton-Thiokol, a NASA subcontractor. In January 1986, he refused to sign off on a launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger which then broke apart ...
- Allan James McDonald, July 9, 1937, Cody, Wyoming, U.S.
- March 6, 2021 (aged 83), Ogden, Utah, U.S.
Mar 9, 2021 · Allan James McDonald was born on July 9, 1937, in Cody, Wyo., and grew up in Billings, Mont. His father, John, ran a grocery; his mother, Eva Marie (Gingras) McDonald, was a homemaker.
Mar 7, 2021 · Facebook. Flipboard. Email. Allan McDonald, who directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, urged delaying the launch of the space shuttle before it exploded in 1986. He ...
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Allan MacDonald (born December 1, 1951, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada) is a Canadian-American physicist known for his work on condensed matter, particularly with graphene. MacDonald received a bachelor’s degree (1973) from St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and then a master’s (1974) and a doctorate (1978) in ...
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Allan James McDonald was born on July 9, 1937, in Cody, Wyo., and grew up in Montana, where his father was a deputy county assessor in Bozeman. His mother was a homemaker.
Mar 7, 2021 · Allan McDonald, who directed the booster rocket project at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol, urged delaying the launch of the space shuttle before it exploded in 1986. He has died at age 83.
