Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran), 1921-1990
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Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran), 1921-1990
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Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran), 1921-1990
Phillips, Samuel C.
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Phillips, Samuel C. 1921-1990
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Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochrane), 1921-1990
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Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochrane), 1921-1990
Phillips, Samuel Cochran 1921-1990
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U.S. Air Force officer, space agency official, intelligence agency director, and defense industry executive.
Samuel C. Phillips (b. 1921, Springerville, Ariz.-d. Jan. 31, 1990), U.S. Air Force officer, was commissioned in the Infantry after completing Reserve Officers Training and graduating from university with a degree in electrical engineering in 1942. He then transferred to active service in the Army Air Corps and earned his pilot wings. During World War II he served with the 364th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force, in England, and completed two combat tours of duty in the European Theater of Operations. After the War he was assigned to European Theater HQ in Frankfurt, Germany. During the 1950s he served in a number of key research and development assignments, and in 1956 returned to England to serve with the 7th Air Division of the Strategic Air Command. He also served as director, Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Program. From 1964 to 1969 he was director, Apollo Manned Lunar Landing Program at NASA, for which contributions he was awarded the Smithsonian Institution's Langley Medal. He retired in 1975.
Phillips was Deputy Director of the Apollo Program.
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Particle accelerators
Ballistic missile defenses
Ballistics
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Cold War
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles
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Rockets (Aeronautics)
Space flight to the moon
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