Box 46
Container
Contains 6 Collections and/or Records:
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
Patches, GUA-8/A, (cloth and adhesive), AOMA GUA-8 AMMO, and A-10 (adhesive), circa 1973
Item — Box: 46, Folder: 2, Item: 16
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 2, File 1, Item 16
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Group:
This sub-group consists of photographs, certificates, and clippings from Bridges' time as a test pilot. The last 2/3rds of the binder contains clippings dealing with various aircraft, including Fairchild's A-10, A-7, Northrop A-9A, A-10A, A-7D, and fly-offs, circa 1972-1977.After returning from Vietnam, Bridges was assigned as an instructor pilot with the 3575th Pilot Training Squadron at Vance AFB, Oklahoma, from January 1969 to July 1970. He then attended Test Pilot School at...
Dates:
circa 1973
Patches, STS-33, 1989
Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 8
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 8
Scope and Contents
Includes tThree cloth and two adhesive mission patches.
Dates:
1989
Found in:
Purdue University Archives and Special Collections
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MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers
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Career Scrapbooks
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Air Force
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Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
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Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
Military insignia for Bridges' battle dress uniform, Colonel and Commander of the Eastern Space and Military Center (ESMC), Patrick Air Force Base, Florida (ESMC was a unit of the Air Force Systems Command), undated
Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 32
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 32
Scope and Contents
From the File:
See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates:
undated
Found in:
Purdue University Archives and Special Collections
/
MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers
/
Career Scrapbooks
/
Air Force
/
Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
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Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
Correspondence from Joe Greenough, Air Force Space Museum, and sample of the 'free' cards available at the Space Museum ("fragment of America's first space flight; metal fragment of the Complex 26 gantry in which the Explorer I satellite and its booster were prepared for launch") , May 1989
Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 33
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 33
Scope and Contents
From the File:
See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates:
May 1989
Found in:
Purdue University Archives and Special Collections
/
MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers
/
Career Scrapbooks
/
Air Force
/
Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
/
Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
Patches, Apollo 11 (one adhesive), NAVSTAR GPS MISSION II-3 (one adhesive), STS-27 (one adhesive), STS-28 (one adhesive), STS-35 (four adhesive) - ASTRO 1 (two cloth and four adhesive), STS-54 (two cloth and two adhesive), circa 1969-1993
Item — Box: 46, Folder: 3, Item: 34
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 1, Item 34
Scope and Contents
From the File:
See Box 46, Folder (Binder) three.
Dates:
circa 1969-1993
Found in:
Purdue University Archives and Special Collections
/
MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers
/
Career Scrapbooks
/
Air Force
/
Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida
/
Photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida