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2 finding aid(s) found containing the word(s) Phillips, Samuel C. (Samuel Cochran), 1921-1990. Samuel C. Phillips map and chart collection.
Samuel C. Phillips papers, 1929-1990
67,200 items. 174 containers plus 1 oversize and 1 classified. 49.6 linear feet. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
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.
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Samuel C. Phillips map and chart collection
32 items. 3 folders. -- Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Summary:
The collection consists of 32 maps and charts that depict Apollo missions and the Northern Hemisphere.