NASA Career, 1978 - 2011

The Astronaut Career sub-series features Bridges' STS-51-F and STS 61-F "Files of Notes and Working Papers Related to Preparation," 1980 - 1986, and audio visual material directly related to the two missions. Also located in the sub-series are STS 51-F flight logs, flight checklists and data files, along with Bridges' pilot kneeboard notes and cards. A few items that can be seen from the STS 61-F, Centaur mission are Bridges' "Deficiencies and Notebook," which he was preparing to take to orbit, and a small black notebook, which contains, per Bridges, "notes on meetings and issues from the time of the Challenger mishap until I left the astronaut program to become Wing Commander at Edwards AFB (January - May 1986). Most of the meetings had to do with issues with the Centaur upper stage that was to launch Ulysses into polar orbit around the sun. Rounding out the Astronaut Career sub-series are issues of the newsletter, Space News Round-up, NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, August 9, 1985 – June 13, 1986.

The second sub-series, Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center, covers many annual reports, briefing charts, implementation plans, strategic plans, reorganization documents and other papers from Bridges' tenure as Director, 1996 - 2002. Please refer to the listing in the finding aid for material in this sub-series.

The third sub-series, Director, Langley Research Center, includes six backup discs for e-mail and files from duties at Langley Research Center (Mac/Eudora Email), "Speeches," Briefings, NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) papers, and Miscellaneous Documents. The last sub-series is NASA Publications. Found here are various NASA Publications that Bridges had collected over the years, 1978 - 2008.