Engineer, corporate executive, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration official. Full name: Thomas Otten Paine; died 1992.
From the description of Thomas O. Paine papers, 1931-1992 (bulk 1960-1982). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83457377
Epithet: couper, of Woodstock, county Oxfordshire
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001092.0x000200
Thomas Otten Paine (November 9, 1921 - May 4, 1992), was a US submarine officer during WWII. He was executive officer of the I-400 won its voyage from Sasebo to Pearl Harbor, where it was torpedoed. After the war, Paine earned a PhD from Stanford in physical metallurgy and served as the third Administrator of NASA, 1969-1970.
From the description of Journal, July - December, 1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 17939492
Biographical Note
1921, Nov. 9
Born,
Berkeley, Calif.
1942
A.B.,
Brown University,
Providence, R.I.
1943
1945
New London, Conn.
New London
Graduated from
Naval Reserve Midshipman Training at
Annapolis, Md., and
Submarine School at
New London, Conn.
Radar and assistant engineering officer, submarine
Pompon
1945
Awarded Submarine Combat Insignia with stars and
United States Navy Commendation Medal
1946, Oct. 1
Married
Barbara Helen Taunton Pearse
1947
1949
M.S. and Ph.D.,
Stanford University,
Palo Alto, Calif.
1949
1963
Successive appointments as research engineer, manager of
materials and processes, research metallurgist, and manager of engineering
applications,
General Electric Company,
Schenectady, N.Y.
1963
1968
Manager of
Technical Military Planning Operation, General Electric
Company,
Santa Barbara, Calif.
1968
1970
Successive appointments as deputy administrator and
administrator,
National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
Directed seven
Apollo missions, including the first
landings on the moon
Awarded Distinguished Service Medal
1970
1976
Vice president and group executive,
Power Generation Group, and senior vice
president for science and technology,
General Electric Company,
New York, N.Y.
1976
1982
President,
Northrop Corp.,
Los Angeles, Calif.
1982
1992
President,
Thomas Paine Associates,
Santa Monica, Calif.
1985
Appointed Chairman of the
National Commission on Space
1990
Appointed to the
Advisory Committee on the Future of the United States
Space Program
1992, May 4
Died,
Los Angeles, Calif.
From the guide to the Thomas O. Paine Papers, 1931-1992, (bulk 1960-1982), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)