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Title
Richard H. Truly
Full Description
Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly served as NASA Administrator from
May 14, 1989 to March 31, 1992. Prior to becoming Administrator,
Adm. Truly served as NASA's Associate Administrator for Space
Flight. In this position, he led the painstaking rebuilding of
the Space Shuttle program after the Challenger accident.
Adm. Truly's career began in the Navy and in 1965 he became one
of the first military astronauts selected to the Air Force's
Manned Orbiting Laboratory program in Los Angeles, California.
He transferred to NASA as an astronaut in August 1969 then served
as capsule communicator for all three Skylab missions in 1973 and
the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.
He was pilot for the 747/Space Shuttle Enterprise approach and
landing test flights during 1977, and his first space flight was
November 12-14, 1981, as pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2).
After leaving NASA, Adm. Truly became Vice President and Director
of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, Georgia Institute of
Technology, in Atlanta.
Keywords
Richard Truly Administrator Skylab Apollo-Soyuz Navy Space Shuttle
Subject Category
Astronauts, Space Shuttle, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, VIPs-People at NASA-NACA, NASA-Management, NASA-Administrators,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
HQ
- Center Number:
Truly01
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2002-000090
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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