Paine, Thomas O., 1921-1992

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Dates:
Birth 1921-11-09
Death 1992-05-04
Americans
English

Biographical notes:

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)

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Subjects:

  • Planets
  • Space colonies
  • Space flight to the moon
  • Submarines (Ships)
  • Submarines (Ships)
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Submarines (Ships)

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  • Engineers

Places:

  • St Albans, Hertfordshire (as recorded)
  • Woodstock, Oxfordshire (as recorded)
  • Outer space (as recorded)
  • Outer space (as recorded)
  • Mars (Planet) (as recorded)
  • Mars (Planet) (as recorded)
  • Japan (as recorded)
  • Japan (as recorded)
  • Outer space (as recorded)
  • Mars (Planet) (as recorded)