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Box 50

 Container

Contains 125 Collections and/or Records:

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

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