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Samuel C. Phillips served as the Director of NASA's Apollo program from 1964 to 1969. He brought Air Force management discipline to the program, standardized procedures and documentation, introduced design review systems, and is credited by Wernher von Braun as the person most responsible for making the many parts of Apollo work on schedule.
Before joining NASA, Phillips flew two combat tours with the 364th Fighter Group in World War II, earned a Master of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1950, and served as Director of the Minuteman ICBM program starting in 1958. He was promoted to brigadier general in April 1961, making him the youngest general officer in the US armed forces at the time.
The Phillips Report was a memo and attached findings that Samuel C. Phillips sent to North American Aviation president Lee Atwood on the 19th of December 1965, documenting delays, quality problems, and cost overruns on the Apollo Command/Service Module and the Saturn V S-II second stage. The report came to public attention during the Congressional investigation into the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts on the 27th of January 1967. NASA Administrator James E. Webb testified before Congress that he had been unaware of its existence.
Phillips received two NASA Distinguished Service Medals, in 1968 and 1969, for his leadership of the Apollo program. He was awarded the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal in September 1969 for his NASA service. On the 26th of September 1971, the Smithsonian Institution awarded him the Langley Gold Medal; he was the fourteenth recipient since the award was first given to the Wright Brothers in 1909.
In July 1960, Phillips froze the Minuteman's design even though its range fell 1,000 miles short of the specified requirement. He chose schedule over specification, calculating that the missiles could still reach their targets from Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. The extended range was achieved in time to equip the second Minuteman wing.
After leaving NASA, Phillips commanded the Space and Missile Systems Organization in Los Angeles from 1969 to 1972. He then served as the seventh Director of the National Security Agency from 1972 to 1973, and as commander of Air Force Systems Command from 1973 to 1975, retiring as a full general. In 1986, NASA asked him to lead a management review following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.