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    Richard Harrison Truly (November 12, 1937 – February 27, 2024) was an American fighter pilot, engineer and astronaut who served as a vice admiral in the...
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    flight of the orbiter Columbia. The mission, crewed by Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly, launched on November 12, 1981, and landed two days later on...
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  • album "Truly", an album by Melanie Amaro TRULY, a hard seltzer brand Jeff Truly (1861–1946), Mississippi legislator and judge Richard H. Truly (1937–2024)...
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    NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight, former astronaut Richard H. Truly, released a report on the deaths of the crew from physician and Skylab...
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    Donald H. Peterson" (PDF). NASA. May 1994. Retrieved April 3, 2020. Shayler & Burgess 2017, pp. 256–257, 383–384. "Astronaut Bio: Richard H. Truly" (PDF)...
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    Daniel Goldin (category George H. W. Bush administration personnel)
    April 1, 1992, to November 17, 2001. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush and also served under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush...
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    Richard H. Truly (born 1937), US Navy fighter pilot, engineer, former astronaut for both the US Air Force and NASA, and NASA's Administrator Richard Howe...
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    Freedom. Established by executive order on November 13, 1969, by President Richard Nixon, it recognizes an individual "who has performed exemplary deeds or...
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    James M. Taylor, USAF Lieutenant Richard H. Truly, USN. To prevent their return to the Navy on graduation, Finley and Truly were retained as instructors until...
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    McCandless II F. Story Musgrave Russell L. Schweickart William E. Thornton Richard H. Truly Mass: 20,847 kg (45,960 lb) Maximum altitude: 440 km (273 mi) (November...
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    the time he joined NASA. He flew his second Shuttle mission on STS-51-I. Truly flew his second Shuttle mission as commander of STS-8. In addition to the...
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    Group Achievement Award (1972). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Donald H. Peterson. Biography portal Spaceflight portal Shayler, David; Burgess, Colin...
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    James C. Fletcher (category George H. W. Bush administration personnel)
    Administrator of NASA, first from April 27, 1971, to May 1, 1977, under President Richard M. Nixon, and again from May 12, 1986, to April 8, 1989, under President...
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    receiver Alvin Hall, former defensive back for the Los Angeles Rams Richard H. Truly - Eighth NASA administrator Thomas M. Wade - Louisiana politician and...
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    administrators spent time at Tech; most notably, Retired Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly was the eighth administrator of NASA, and later served as the president...
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    who became the first African-American to fly in space. The commander, Truly, was the only veteran astronaut of the crew, having flown as the pilot on...
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    1958 to January 20, 1961. Born in Enderlin, North Dakota, the son of Richard and Margaret Glennan, he attended the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire...
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  • W. Haise, Jr, NASA/JSC Space Shuttle Joe H. Engle, Col, USAF Charles Fullerton, Lt Col USAF Richard H. Truly, CDR USN 1979 Philip F. Oestricher, General...
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    to step down as administrator to allow the next president, Republican Richard Nixon, to choose his own administrator. Webb left NASA on October 7, 1968...
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  • 2006) 1934 – Vavá, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2002) 1937 – Richard H. Truly, NASA astronaut (d. 2024) 1938 – Delano Lewis, American diplomat (d...
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    Henry Hartsfield (category Articles with hCards)
    included Michael L. Coats (pilot), Judith A. Resnik, Steven A. Hawley and Richard M. Mullane (mission specialists), and Charles D. Walker (payload specialist)...
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    Karol J. Bobko (category Articles with hCards)
    Coast's own astronaut dies in HMB at age 85, Pacifica Tribune Sandomir, Richard (August 24, 2023). "Karol Bobko, First to Pilot the Challenger Into Space...
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    John Young (astronaut) (category Articles with hCards)
    Crippen flying as the pilot.: 182  Their backup crew, Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly, was the primary crew for STS-2.: 223  The development of Columbia...
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    music historian (Gulfport) Richard H. Truly (1937–2024), USN vice-admiral, astronaut, NASA administrator (Fayette) Louis H. Wilson Jr. (1920–2005), Commandant...
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    Joseph P. Kerwin (category Articles with hCards)
    the Challenger disaster to Associate Administrator for Space Flight, Richard H. Truly. Kerwin retired from the Navy, left NASA, and joined Lockheed in 1987...
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    text from this source, which is in the public domain. White, Rowland; Truly, Richard (2017). Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First...
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    Hugh Latimer Dryden (category Articles with hCards)
    flow", Academic Press Inc., New York, 1948. Dryden, Hugh L., and Abbott, Ira H., "The design of low-turbulence wind tunnels", NACA, Technical Note 1755,...
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    disputed Low's involvement in von Braun's resignation. Low's biography by Richard Jurek also disputes this account, indicating Low's efforts to try to retain...
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    Robert Crippen (category Articles with hCards)
    at Edwards Air Force Base. A second crew of astronauts Joe H. Engle and Richard H. Truly alternated with Haise and Fullerton to test the Enterprise's...
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    Rogers Commission Report (category Richard Feynman)
    Office Bob Crippen, astronaut Hank Hartsfield, astronuat Rear Admiral Richard H. Truly, Associate Administrator for space flight Arnold D. Aldrich, manager...
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