High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Thiokol-Woodbine Explosion occurred at 10:53 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, February 3, 1971, at the Thiokol chemical plant, 12 miles southeast of Woodbine, Georgia, and 30 miles north of Jacksonville, Florida, when large quantities of flares and their components in building M-132 were ignited by a fire and detonation occurred.Thiokol Chemical at Woodbine was a complex of 36 buildings located on 7,400 acres (29.95 km2; 11.56 sq mi) at the former Floyd Plantation, constructed in 1964 to test and build solid propellant rocket motors for NASA. However, the space agency changed plans and decided to use liquid fuel; Thiokol modified the installation to manufacture other products. In 1969, the company was awarded an Army contract to manufacture 750,000 Tripflares for use in the Vietnam War.

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