Box 47

Scope and Contents

Items are within two binders. Binder four; Letters of Congratulations, Promotion to Brigadier General, January 1990 (includes Department of the Air Force, Special Order promoting Bridges to Brigadier General, effective and with the date of rank 1 July, 1990, along with the official invitation to promotion ceremony). Binder five - Letters of Congratulations, Promotion to Brigadier General, January 1990.

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Presents a selection of early scientific findings gleaned from the two cameras aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Contained in small, white three-ring binder labeled, "Hubble Space Telescope and the Astrophysics Division Missions and Slide Set."

All items are in a binder, but referred to as "folder" in the archival sense of the word.

Scope and Contents The career scrapbooks consist of thirty-one three-ring binders that Bridges put together throughout his Air Force and NASA careers. There is a wealth of material that is contained in the binders. Some of the items are: applications, appraisals, certificates, correspondence and letters of congratulations, notification of appointments, speaking notes, and other various notes, emails, cards and miscellaneous items from his retirement. The binders also include photographs from...

Scope and Contents

The sub-series is comprised of six sub-groups with a scope note for each at the sub-group level. The contents of each page within the binders is listed in the finding aid. If Bridges provided a comment about the contents, this is noted in the finding aid too.

Scope and Contents

Sub-group four contain various photographs, correspondence, articles, and miscellaneous items collected during Bridges' tour as the Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. Also included in this sub-group are two binders containing letters of congratulations upon Bridges' promotion to Brigadier General, January 1990.

Scope and Contents

This sub-group is comprised solely of correspondence, slides, and the premier issue of Observer, Space Telescope Science Institute (Winter 1991), reflecting the earliest scientific findings gleaned from the two cameras aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

All items are contained in one small binder.

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...