When Thiokol established their rocket plant, the first sign that things were changing in the community was the population growth. Almost overnight, engineers, scientists, and their families arrived to make Brigham City their new home. A town of 6,790 people in 1950 exploded into 11,728 by 1960.
Once Brigham City had a taste of what industry could bring, they were hooked. When employment slowed down at Thiokol in 1967, the mayor made it his mission to attract more companies to establish their presence in the area. There would be no returning to the earlier economic reality.
In the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the second of two Artemis I aft booster segments for the Space Launch System is lowered by crane into High Bay 3 on Nov. 24, 2020. Workers with Exploration Ground Systems and contractor Jacobs teams will stack the twin five-segment boosters on the mobile launcher in High Bay 3 over a number of weeks. When the core stage arrives, it will join the boosters on the mobile launcher, followed by the interim cryogenic propulsion stage and Orion spacecraft. Manufactured by Northrop Grumman in Utah, the twin boosters provide more than 75 percent of the total SLS thrust at launch. The SLS is managed by Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Under the Artemis program, NASA will land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. The first in a series of increasingly complex missions, Artemis I will test the Orion spacecraft and SLS as an integrated system ahead of crewed flights to the Moon.
