Butch Foster Collection
Content Description
The collection consists of aerospace engineering related films and videotapes, including works produced by Thiokol Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Atlantic Research Group Corporation, and Pratt and Whitney.
Dates
- 1953 - 2006
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
Born in 1926 as a result of a serendipitous laboratory experiment that produced the world's first synthetic rubber, the Thiokol Chemical Corporation was formally created in 1929. Thiokol is the world's largest producer of high-technology solid rocket motors for space, defense, and commercial launch applications. It produces the giant solid rocket motors for NASA's Space Shuttle program.
Butch Foster is a professor emeritus in the department of aerospace engineering at Auburn University. In 2016, Foster was awarded the prestigious Hermann Oberth Award.
Extent
7.0 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Guide to the Butch Foster Collection
- Subtitle
- Record Group 0544
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lisa Glasscock
- Date
- April 15, 2021
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
