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Box 50

 Container

Contains 81 Collections and/or Records:

Gold Dollar Award, presented to Bridges by the Kennedy Space Center Staff , 1999

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 50
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 50
Scope and Contents Note per Bridges, "I presented many of these as my personal award to workers down in the trenches of KSC so this was done in recognition of those events during my tenure."
Dates: 1999
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

Flown CLCS pin and certificate, STS-93, July 23 - 27, 1999

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 51
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 51
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 - 27, 1999
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

Certificate, 35 Year Service Award, February 11, 2001

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 52
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 52
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 11, 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

Articles on George Abbey Being relieved as Center Director of Johnson Space Center, 2001

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 53
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 53
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

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

Program, NASA Honor Awards Ceremony and accompanying photograph of Bridges with NASA Administrator Dan Goldin and Associate Deputy Administrator Dan Mulville being presented the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, June 21, 2001

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 56
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 56
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 21, 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

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

Letter to Bridges from Dan Goldin upon his departure as NASA Administrator, and accompanying Certificate and flown US flag, November 15, 2001

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 59
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 59
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: November 15, 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

NASA Space Flight cover postmarked on date of launch presented to Bridges, October 11, 2002

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 62
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 62
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: October 11, 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

Photograph of Bridges with Ravi Margasahayam, NASA employee and co-organizer of a Symposium on Sound and Vibration with UCF, July 2002

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 63
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 63
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 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

Various photographs of Bridges with James I. Jennings, Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director - Bridges speaking and receiving a plaque at the 2001 African American History Month Luncheon at KSC, 2001

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 64
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 64
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

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

Program for STS-107 memorial service at Johnson Space Center, February 4, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 69
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 69
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 4, 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

Program and Bridges' remarks at the Florida Institute of Technology graduation (Bridges was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science.), May 3, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 72
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 72
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 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

Program for the Columbia Reconstruction Hangar walk through Kennedy Space Center, July 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 73
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 73
Scope and Contents Note per Bridges, "We took the workforce through the hangar to help with closure."
Dates: July 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

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