Astronaut David Wolf Bridge (Indianapolis, Indiana)

 truss bridge, NRHP - National Register of Historic Places, 1980_construction, 1942_construction, 2008_construction

David A. Wolf is an American astronaut. Three shuttle missions to date, plus an extended stay on the Russian Space Station Mir.
Born August 23rd. 1956 in Indianapolis, IN.
1974 graduate of North Central High School in Indianapolis.
Received an Electrical Engineering degree from Purdue University
Received a Medical degree from Indiana University
Was first person to vote from space.

www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/wolf.html

Built in 1942 as part of a transportation plan to move military troops from Fort Benjamin Harrison to U.S. 31, the bridge is a combination of pony truss and Parker through-truss spans. It remains Marion County’s sole surviving example of a Parker truss, in which diagonal supports slope toward the center of the bridge’s bottom chord, while the upper chord is divided into polygonal sections creating an arched shape. The bridge was listed in the National Register in September 2006 and underwent a 2008 restoration.