Roy Dubard Bridges, Jr. (born July 19, 1943, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American aviator, a retired U.S Air Force officer, the former director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and a former NASA astronaut.
Bridges served as a NASA astronaut, piloting the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51 F (July 29 to August 6, 1985).
As director, Bridges was responsible for managing NASA's only site for processing and launch of the Space Shuttle ve...
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Roy Dubard Bridges, Jr. (born July 19, 1943, in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American aviator, a retired U.S Air Force officer, the former director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center and a former NASA astronaut.
Bridges served as a NASA astronaut, piloting the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51 F (July 29 to August 6, 1985).
As director, Bridges was responsible for managing NASA's only site for processing and launch of the Space Shuttle vehicle; processing the payloads flown on both the Shuttle and expendable launch vehicles; and overseeing expendable vehicle launches carrying NASA payloads. He managed a team of about 2,000 NASA civil servants and about 14,000 contractors.
Bridges is a retired U.S. Air Force Major General who served as the director of requirements, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, from June 1993 until his retirement July 1, 1996. In that position he served as the command focal point for product management policy,...
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