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Box 4

 Container

Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:

Purdue University, 1963 - 1984

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 302, Series 1
Scope and Contents The Purdue University series contains 26 textbooks used by Brown while he was a student at Purdue University from 1963 - 1967. Some of the textbooks contain his highlights, notations, a few assignment sheets and notes.Also found in the series is Brown's senior group project for Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Engineering Sciences, (A&ES) 451, Apollo 11 photographs that Brown had on his dorm room wall while at Purdue, and a trophy from a paper airplane contest.While at...
Dates: 1963 - 1984

Senior Project, Artifacts, and Memorabilia, 1969 - 1985

 Sub-Series — Box: 4
Identifier: MSA 302, Series 1, Sub-Series 2
Scope and Contents This sub-series consists of Brown's Purdue senior project for Aeronautics, Astronautics, and Engineering Sciences, (A&ES) 451. Students worked as a group and were to make a preliminary design of an aircraft. In the case of Brown's group, it was a "Roach Clipper." This particular aircraft is a Short Take-off and Landing (STOL) craft. Brown worked on the propulsion and performance part of the project.Other items are Apollo 11 photographs, which Brown indicated, were on his dorm...
Dates: 1969 - 1985

Mark N. Brown papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 302
Scope and Contents The Mark N. Brown papers include papers and memorabilia of retired astronaut and Purdue Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering alumnus, Mark N. Brown. Included are Brown's textbooks from his studies at Purdue, Air Force ROTC certificate, Apollo program photographs that were pinned to Brown's Purdue dorm room wall while he was a student in the early 1970s, a Purdue paper airplane contest trophy, along with other Purdue memorabilia.  The collection also includes NASA memorabilia...
Dates: 1963 - 1991