Collier Trophy > Collier 1960-1969 Winners
1960 Vice Admiral William F. Raborn, USN Under whose direction the United States Navy, Science and Industry created the operational fleet ballistic missile weapon system Polaris.
1961 Major Robert M. White, USAF; Joseph A. Walker, NASA; A. Scott Crossfield, North American Aviation; and Commander Forrest Petersen, USN For invaluable technological contributions to the advancement of flight and for great skill and courage as test pilots of the X-15.
1962 Lt. Cmdr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter, USN; Maj. L. Gordon Cooper, USAF; Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr. USMC; Major Virgil I. Grissom, USAF; Cmdr. Walter M. Schirra, Jr., USN; Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard, Jr., USN; Major Donald K. Slayton, USAF For pioneering manned space flight in the United States.
1963 Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson For designing and directing the development of the USAF A-11 Mach 3 aircraft.
1964 General Curtis E. Lemay For development of high performance aircraft, missiles and space systems which in 1964 significantly expanded the frontiers of American aeronautics and astronautics.
1965 James E. Webb and Hugh L. Dryden Representing all of the Gemini program teams which significantly advanced human experience in space flight..
1966 James S. McDonnell For his leadership and perseverance in advancing aeronautics and astronautics exemplified by the F-4 Phantom aircraft and the Gemini space vehicles.
1967 Lawrence A. Hyland Representing the Surveyor Program Team at Hughes Aircraft Company, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and associated organizations that put the eyes and hands of the United States on the Moon.
1968 Col. Frank Borman, USAF; Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr., USN; and Lt. Col. William A. Anders, USAF As the crew of Apollo 8 and representing the entire United States space flight team for the successful and flawless execution of the first manned lunar orbit mission in history.
1969 Neil A. Armstrong; Col. Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., USAF; Col. Michael Collins, USAF For the epic flight of Apollo 11 and the first landing of man on the surface of the Moon, July 20, 1969.
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