Box 47
Container
Contains 7 Collections and/or Records:
Career Scrapbooks, 1950 - 2009
Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4
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...
Dates:
1950 - 2009
Air Force, 1965 - 2003
Sub-Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1
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.
Dates:
1965 - 2003
Commander, Eastern Space and Missile Center, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, 1969 - 2003
Sub-Group — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4
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.
Dates:
1969 - 2003
Deputy Chief of Staff, Test and Resources, Headquarters Air Force Systems Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland, 1990 - 1991
Sub-Group — Box: 47
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 5
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.
All items are contained in one small binder.
Dates:
1990 - 1991
Letters of Congratulations, Promotion to Brigadier General, January 1990
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 4, File 2, Item 39
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.
Dates:
January 1990
Correspondence, slides, and premier issue, Observer, Space Telescope Science Institute , Winter 1991
File — Box: 47, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 1, Sub-Group 5, File 1
Scope and Contents
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.
All items are in a binder, but referred to as "folder" in the archival sense of the word.
Dates:
Winter 1991
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