The Joseph G. Thibodaux Papers is composed of correspondence, photographs, memoranda, telegrams, programs, certificates, meeting minutes, artwork, scrapbooks, family genealogical and biographical data records, newspaper articles, journal articles, and miscellaneous materials, documenting the personal and professional career of Joseph Guy Thibodaux Jr. Thibodaux first began working for National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in 1946. He would go to work at NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas, in 1964, serving as the Chief of the Propulsion and Power Division before retiring from NASA in 1980. The collection materials date from 1915 to 2008, including family records and information for the Thibodaux family.