"If I had to trace that back to a singular point, it was the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger," Reynolds said. I want to be involved in this somehow.”Reynolds wrote to Morton Thiokol, the Utah company that built the boosters for the shuttle program. "To my surprise, two or three weeks later, I received all sorts of packets and pictures and stories about the Challenger and the Challenger crew," Reynolds said. "The second [opportunity] opened up, I jumped on it and ended up working on the Space Shuttle program," Reynolds said. "Today, the cylinders that we are flying—those metal cases that we are flying on the SLS—many of them flew on the Space Shuttle," Reynolds said.