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Former Shuttle Pilot to Lead NASA's Langley, Va., Center.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003

By Elena Gaona, Daily Press, Newport News, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 14--NASA's Kennedy Space Center director in Florida for the past six years is coming to Hampton to lead NASA's Langley Research Center, officials announced Thursday.

Gen. Roy D. Bridges, a retired Air Force major general and former space shuttle pilot, has been named Langley Research Center director and will begin work Aug. 10.

"This is a historic day at Langley Research Center," said NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, because three of the center's directors were united for the announcement, including Bridges, past director Jeremiah Creedon and current director Delma Freeman.

Bridges, who will be the ninth director at Langley, has been at...

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