page_title: Sam Beddingfield
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caption_attribution_description: Sam T. Beddingfield outside the disused Astronaut Trail Post Office in Titusville, Florida.
context_page_description: Samuel T. "Sam" Beddingfield was an American test pilot and a pioneering aerospace engineer and who had a long career with NASA during its manned space programs.
context_section_description: Samuel T. "Sam" Beddingfield (October 28, 1933 – June 13, 2012) was an American test pilot and a pioneering aerospace engineer and  who had a long career with NASA during its manned space programs.
caption: Beddingfield in 2009 in Titusville, Florida
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