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Box 50

 Container

Contains 39 Collections and/or Records:

NASA News Release regarding Bridges' selection as Kennedy Space Center Director, January 24, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 3
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 3
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: January 24, 1997
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges sworn in as KSC's seventh director, KSC Spaceport News, March 14, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 5
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 5
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: March 14, 1997
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Articles in Florida Today, January 4, 1997, and the Orlando Sentinel, regarding Bridges' selection as Center Director at Kennedy Space Center, January 3, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 2
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 2
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: January 3, 1997
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Roy Bridges named new center director, KSC Spaceport News, January 31, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 4
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 4
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: January 31, 1997
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Clipping, "Bridges, new leaders meet," KSC Spaceport News, April 21, 2000

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 33
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 33
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: April 21, 2000
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Letter from Bridges to his boss, Joe Rothenberg, Associate Administrator for Space Flight, in regards to Bridges' contract, April 26, 2000

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 34
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 34
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: April 26, 2000
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges' remarks as host and to introduce John F. Kennedy Jr., world premiere of the HBO series, “From the Earth to the Moon, KSC Saturn V, March 25, 1998

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 40
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 40
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: March 25, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges' remarks for the Kennedy Space Center, Super Safety Day, July 16, 1998

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 41
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 41
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: July 16, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Teamwork and Trust, article submitted by Bridges to Stephen R. Covey for his book on leadership, The Nature of Leadership (not accepted), July 9, 1998

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 42
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 42
Scope and Contents Letter from Stephen Covey thanking Bridges for participation is included.
Dates: July 9, 1998
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

NASA news release regarding Roy Bridges being awarded the Debus Award, and various related congratulatory letters, April 9, 2001

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 54
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 54
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: April 9, 2001
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

NASA News Release regarding Roy Bridges being awarded an honorary doctorate by Purdue University, May 14, 2000

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 55
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 55
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: May 14, 2000
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges' notes from a meeting with Dan Goldin at breakfast in Cocoa Beach, FL on July 14, 2001 regarding his desire to have Bridges take the Center Director's position at the Johnson Space Center following George Abbey's removal, July 14, 2001

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 57
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 57
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: July 14, 2001
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Notes Bridges used to eventually respond to Dan Goldin after formerly being offered the position and interviewing with OMB and others. Bridges declined to take the position, 2001

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 58
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 58
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: 2001
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Clipping, Aviation Week, in regards to rumors of people to be reassigned, August 19, 2002

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 60
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 60
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: August 19, 2002
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Email from Bridges to Bill Readdy (OSF Leadership Actions) regarding Bridges' background, family information and future desires as Readdy took charge of the Space Flight programs from Joe Rothenberg, August 2002

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 61
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 61
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: August 2002
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Email cover to an article for the Astronaut Memorial Foundation Newsletter with comments by Bridges, July 23, 2002

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 65
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 65
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: July 23, 2002
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges' remarks to Melbourne District, United Methodist Church District Dinner for Scouting, January 30, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 66
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 66
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: January 30, 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges' remarks to the KSC workforce on the loss of Columbia, February 3, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 67
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 67
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: February 3, 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges' remarks at a memorial service for the crew of Columbia at Barksdale Air Force Base, LA, February 8, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 68
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 68
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: February 8, 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

List of participants for the STS-107 Memorial at Kennedy Space Center, February 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 70
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 70
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: February 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Articles by former astronaut Walt Cunningham, undated

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 71
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 71
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: undated
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Comments made by Bridges to Kennedy Space Center workforce on the announcement that he would be departing KSC to be the Center Director at Langley Research Center, June 26, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 74
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 74
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: June 26, 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Notes on a phone call from NASA Center Director at Langley to establish what was eventually called the NASA Engineering and Safety Center, circa June 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 75
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 75
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: circa June 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges' comments to the National Space Club, Farewell Dinner for Bridges at Kennedy Space Center, July 11, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 76
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 76
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: July 11, 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

Bridges' comments to the workforce at the KSC farewell to him, August 5, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 78
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 78
Scope and Contents From the File: Black binder with various mementos, photographs, and articles of Bridges' service at Kennedy Space Center Florida from March 1997 - August 2003.
Dates: August 5, 2003
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / MSA 6, Roy D. Bridges Jr. papers / Career Scrapbooks / NASA / Director, John F. Kennedy Space Center / NASA, Kennedy Space Center Florida / White binder with various photographs, articles, correspondence, programs, speeches, mementos, including patches, and other miscellaneous items during Bridges' tour as the NASA Kennedy Space Center Director