Samuel C. Phillips papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: Nuclear arms control; Nuclear weapons; Defense contracts; Minuteman (Missile); North American Aviation; Research; United States; Project Apollo (U.S.); Intercontinental ballistic missiles; Superconducting Super Collider; Space and Missile Systems Organization (U.S.); Saturn Project (U.S.); Cold War; TRW Inc; Defense industries; Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation; Correspondence; Space flight to the moon; Military weapons; United States. Air Force; Testing; Ballistics; Space race; Particle accelerators; Strategic Defense Initiative; Rockets (Aeronautics); Particles (Nuclear physics); Exploration; Ballistic missile defenses; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; United States. Air Force. Systems Command; Launch vehicles (Astronautics)
Description: Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, family and personal papers, photographs, and other papers documenting Phillips's career in the U.S. Air Force where he specialized in ballistics and weapons research; as director of Project Apollo, the lunar landing program of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and as an executive with TRW, Inc., and other defense contracting firms.  Documents his work as commander of the Space and Missile Systems Organization and U.S. Air Force Systems Command.  Includes material on atomic weapons tests, Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile system, Project Saturn (rocket development), Strategic Defense Initiative, Superconducting Super Collider, Titan III launch system, and other defense and aeronautical projects with which he was involved during the Cold War and the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union.  Correspondents include Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation and North American Aviation, inc.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified, in part.

Gift, Mrs. Samuel C. Phillips, 1991-1993.

transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Geography and Map Division.

transferred to Library of Congress Music Division.

U.S. Air Force officer, space agency official, intelligence agency director, and defense industry executive.

Collection material in English.

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