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Box 6

 Container

Contains 8 Collections and/or Records:

Education, 1939 - 1976

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2
Scope and Contents This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1939 - 1976

Reports and Research for Purdue University Master's Thesis, 1958 - 1976

 Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 3
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1958 - 1976

Presentation format for thesis and draft , 1971 - 1972

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 7

Master's Thesis; A Study of Fluid Injection Into a Subsonic Air Flow, 1972

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1972

Warner, C. F.; Dyer, H. L.; Mayse, W. C. & Ross, J. L. Studies Of Slurry Fueled Propulsion Systems Fourth Semiannual Progress Report. Lafayette, Indiana: Jet Propulsion Center, School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University. (Office of Naval Research, Contract N00014-67-A-0226-0013), 1972

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 10
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: 1972

Diagram, "The" Slurry Fuel System (initialed "H.L.D.") , May 24, 1971

 File — Box: 6, Folder: 5
Identifier: MSA 283, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 11
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series includes materials documenting Jerry Ross' coursework at Purdue University, including ROTC training and certificate of meritorious achievement - "Outstanding Basic Cadet" award, a two page reflection on "My Career in the Air Force;" reports and research material from his master's thesis, and training material from Maxwell Air Force Base and Gunter Air Force Base. Ross' United States Air Force special orders and documents are included, along with a few Air Force training items....
Dates: May 24, 1971

Jerry L. Ross papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 283
Scope and Contents The Jerry L. Ross papers document Ross' student life at Purdue, his test flight engineer work, and NASA career as an engineer and astronaut. The collection includes Purdue coursework and memorabilia; papers from Ross' work at Edwards Air Force Base, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and Test Pilot School; NASA Space Shuttle training, mission documents and mission related scrapbooks, memorabilia, and flight crew films and interviews, along with documents and maps from Ross' work on Space Shuttle...
Dates: 1940 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1970 - 2000