Box 11
Container
Contains 6 Collections and/or Records:
Pamphlet, Announcement for Mission Specialist and Pilot Astronaut Candidates, circa 1977
File — Box: 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Roy D. Bridges, Jr. submitted his first application for Space Shuttle Duty (Shuttle Pilot Program) on February 19, 1977. He was not selected the first time he applied and reapplied on October 30, 1979. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1980. In November 1979 when informed of his selection by NASA, Bridges was assigned to Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada as a special projects officer. Beginning in July 1980 and ending in...
Dates:
circa 1977
Newsletter that contains a photograph of Astronaut Loren Shriver (Purdue alum), 1980
File — Box: 11, Folder: 25
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 25
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Roy D. Bridges, Jr. submitted his first application for Space Shuttle Duty (Shuttle Pilot Program) on February 19, 1977. He was not selected the first time he applied and reapplied on October 30, 1979. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1980. In November 1979 when informed of his selection by NASA, Bridges was assigned to Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada as a special projects officer. Beginning in July 1980 and ending in...
Dates:
1980
Photographs, NASA Astronaut Candidates Selected January 1980, and a group shot of them in front of the Space Shuttle, January 1980
File — Box: 11, Folder: 29
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 29
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Roy D. Bridges, Jr. submitted his first application for Space Shuttle Duty (Shuttle Pilot Program) on February 19, 1977. He was not selected the first time he applied and reapplied on October 30, 1979. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1980. In November 1979 when informed of his selection by NASA, Bridges was assigned to Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada as a special projects officer. Beginning in July 1980 and ending in...
Dates:
January 1980
Small poster, STS-1 PIN Party, April 1981
File — Box: 11, Folder: 32
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 32
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Roy D. Bridges, Jr. submitted his first application for Space Shuttle Duty (Shuttle Pilot Program) on February 19, 1977. He was not selected the first time he applied and reapplied on October 30, 1979. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1980. In November 1979 when informed of his selection by NASA, Bridges was assigned to Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada as a special projects officer. Beginning in July 1980 and ending in...
Dates:
April 1981
First Shuttle Flight Achievement Award and vehicle pass to First Launch of The Space Shuttle, Kennedy Parkway, 1981
File — Box: 11, Folder: 33
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 2, Sub-Series 3, File 33
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Roy D. Bridges, Jr. submitted his first application for Space Shuttle Duty (Shuttle Pilot Program) on February 19, 1977. He was not selected the first time he applied and reapplied on October 30, 1979. He was selected as an astronaut candidate by NASA in May 1980. In November 1979 when informed of his selection by NASA, Bridges was assigned to Detachment 3 of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada as a special projects officer. Beginning in July 1980 and ending in...
Dates:
1981
Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6
Scope and Contents
The Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers document the extensive Air Force and NASA career of Roy D. Bridges Jr.The papers include but are not limited to, artifacts, audio visual material, awards, books, briefs and records, certificates, clippings, clothing, correspondence, diaries, documents, flight logs, flight checklists and data files, along with Bridges' pilot kneeboard notes, medals, mementos, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, textbooks, research papers, and working paper...
Dates:
1950 - 2013