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Tourist a go-go

Last updated Monday, July 26, 2010 - 12:22pm

Summer is the time to load up the family and take a tour across America -- not that different, come to find out, from the days of the Wild West.

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Feds provide money to help laid off ATK workers

The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, April 30, 2010 - 11:22am

SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Department of Labor is vowing more than $1 million to help about 200 workers laid off at ATK Launch Systems in Utah.

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OUR VIEW: The cost of protection

Last updated Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 12:50am

For a long time, Tremonton provided fire protection for smaller communities Elwood, Deweyville and unincorporated areas of Box Elder County.

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(NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner) A stage four space shuttle rocket is fired through a static test at ATK's testing facility near Corinne on Thursday.

ATK testing roars for what may be the last time

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 2:08am

CORRECTION: Leslie Woerner, a real estate agent in Brigham City, worked at ATK Space Systems more than 20 years ago. A story in Friday's newspaper misstated the length of time she worked for the company.

PROMONTORY -- The final firing of a space shuttle booster motor was a glaring, roaring, vibrating success, but Leslie Woerner says the solid line of cars creeping through morning fog to the test site only added to her feeling that something great is dying.

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(BETH SCHLANKER/Standard-Examiner) People gather to watch a static test of ATK's solid rocket fuel motor for the new Ares I.

After firing of rocket motor, gathering of data can start

Di Lewis Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Friday, September 11, 2009 - 6:02pm

PROMONTORY -- A roar and flames filled the air, bringing cheers from about 4,000 onlookers at the successful test of the Ares I rocket motor Thursday.

Those gathered to watch the test at Alliant Techsystems, also known as ATK, were not disappointed when the motor performed properly, burning for about two minutes and sending a plume of dust skyward.

"You know some of us have been around this industry -- gosh, I hate to admit it -- for 25 years, and seen a lot of static fires. And I can tell you, this one was special," said Alex Priskos, Ares I First Stage manager.

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