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Box 50

 Container

Contains 81 Collections and/or Records:

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

Program for KSC farewell to Bridges, Saturn V Building, August 5, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 77
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 77
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

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

Various photos of Bridges' wife Benita in striped blouse with flowers and others at the farewell on August 5, 2003. Others in photos include Bridges’ Executive Assistant, Jane Kleinschmidt (also with flowers), and the KSC Deputy Director and Center Director to follow Bridges, Jim Kennedy (presenting a framed launch photo with flags to Bridges), August 5, 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 79
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 79
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

Per Bridges, "The remaining items in the book are all articles or items presented to me during the various farewell events that took place in July and August 2003", 2003

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 80
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 80
Scope and Contents Includes a letter from Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
Dates: 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

Photograph, Bridges speaking to the community leaders, Kennedy Space Center Visitors Center, March 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 8
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 8
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 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

Comments to Kennedy Space Center senior staff after swearing in, March 3, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 9
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 9
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 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

Comments made by Bridges to open first Kennedy Space Center press conference, March 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 10
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 10
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 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

Senior Executive Service (SES) appointment certificate, March 3, 1997 and letter of congratulations from NASA Administrator, Dan Goldin, July 14, 1997

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

Photograph of Columbia on the pad for STS-83 with the comet Hale-Bopp in the frame at the upper left, April 3, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 12
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 12
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 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

Various photographs of the launch and early return of STS-83 following the failure of a fuel cell, April 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 13
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 13
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 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

"A New Style," Jim Thompson, KSC Personnel Notes and Happenings Newsletter, April 4, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 14
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 14
Scope and Contents Note, per Bridges, "There was a lot of concern that I wore a coat and tie to work at KSC so I needed to clear the air on dress codes."
Dates: April 4, 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

Former space shuttle pilot chosen as Kennedy Space Center director, Orlando Sentinel with accompanying letter from Dorothy Strickland, widow of Herbert Strickland, Bridges’ high school principal from Gainesville, Georgia, January 15, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 15
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 15
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 15, 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 from Bridges' hometown paper, the Gainesville Times, on Bridges' appointment as KSC Center Director, March 4, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 16
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 16
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 4, 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

Various clippings on Bridges being appointed Kennedy Space Center Director, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 17
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 17
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: 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

"Debus Speech" and program, April 11, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 18
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 18
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 11, 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, A conversation with Roy Bridges, Florida Today, April 20, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 19
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 19
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 20, 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

Letter from AIAA regarding a speech Bridges made to their members and speech slides, "Earth, Moon, Mars, and Beyond", May 27, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 20
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 20
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 27, 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

Certificate from NASA for getting Cassini launched successfully, 1997

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

Email with a summary of a speech that I gave to the NASA Kennedy Management Association (NKMA), Dian Hardison, May 12, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 22
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 22
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 12, 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, Mars in 25 years, Mature Lifestyles , July 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 23
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 23
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 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

Slides from a presentation to a symposium; High-Tech Florida Means Business, 'Aerospace, Florida's Gateway to the Future', September 29 - 30, 1997

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 24
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 24
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: September 29 - 30, 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' comments on the rollout of the last Spacelab mission and program, undated

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 25
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 25
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

Commemorative certificate and flown patch (STS-99) for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport, 1950 - 2000

 Item — Box: 50, Folder: 3, Item: 26
Identifier: MSA 6, Series 4, Sub-Series 2, Sub-Group 3, File 3, Item 26
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: 1950 - 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