Samuel C. Phillips Papers 1929-1990 (bulk 1958-1989)

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Samuel C. Phillips Papers 1929-1990 (bulk 1958-1989)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004016

United States Air Force officer, space agency official, intelligence agency director, and defense industry executive. Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, family and personal papers, and photographs documenting Phillips's career in the United States Air Force where he specialized in ballistics and weapons research; as director of Project Apollo (U.S.), the lunar landing program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and as an executive with TRW Inc. and other defense contracting firms. Includes material on the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system, atomic weapons tests, Saturn Project (U.S.) (rocket development), the Superconducting Super Collider, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and other defense and aeronautical projects.

67,200 items; 174 containers plus 1 oversize and 1 classified; 49.6 linear feet

eng,

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6356201

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

Related Entities

There are 12 Entities related to this resource.

Phillips family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tr5dtg (family)

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r60hpw (corporateBody)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

United States. Air Force. Systems Command

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69p8g3p (corporateBody)

North American Aviation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sv1jsw (corporateBody)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wf1szt (corporateBody)

The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. First conceived during Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returnin...

Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran), 1921-1990

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kq0s6j (person)

U.S. Air Force officer, space agency official, intelligence agency director, and defense industry executive. From the description of Samuel C. Phillips papers, 1929-1990 (bulk 1958-1989). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71072474 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...

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6226w79 (corporateBody)

Saturn Project (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jb23nr (corporateBody)

TRW Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z37cq5 (corporateBody)

Established in 1900, in Cleveland, Ohio, as the Cleveland Cap Screw Co. It began producing automotive parts and underwent several reorganizations, becoming the Electric Welding Products Co. (1908), the Steel Products Co. (1915), and Thompson Products Inc. (1926). It expanded to include branch plants and the production of aircraft parts, and fostered a company union, the Automotive and Aircraft Workers Alliance (later the Aircraft Workers Alliance). It grew during World War II due to defense cont...

Space and Missile Systems Organization (U.S.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w619188h (corporateBody)

Phillips family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65j9h7n (family)

United States. Air Force

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pc6qkd (corporateBody)

At Harris Neck, Georgia, in the remote northern reaches of McIntosh County, the United States government, in the fall of 1942, confiscated the lands along the South Newport and Barbour Island Rivers. Paved runways were constructed for aircraft, and Harris Neck became an air reconnaissance base for the United States Army Air Force during World War II. A number of support buildings were constructed at the Harris Neck Air Base, such as barracks for personnel, an officers club, and PX, to serve the ...