Atlanta native Roy Bridges was already in rare company as a former NASA astronaut who piloted a mission to space. Now he’s joining an even more exclusive group as one of the newest members of the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame.
Bridges flew one NASA mission to space and later served as director of both the Kennedy Space Center and the Langley Research Center. He was notified about his induction into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in February.
“It was a very big surprise,” he told WABE. “I’m fully retired at 79 years old and I flew into space when I was 42 … Obviously, it had something to do with my later assignments at NASA.”
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