Richard Harrison Truly was an American fighter pilot, engineer and astronaut who served as a vice admiral in the United States Navy and as the eighth administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) from 1989 to 1992. He was the first former astronaut to head the space agency.
Astronaut Dick Truly testing EVA spacesuit don and duff activities
Vice Admiral Richard H. Truly, served as Nasa Adminstrator from May 14, 1989 to March 31, 1992
Celebrating Apollo 11 - 20th Anniversary
Sts-2 crew
ADM James D. Watkins, right, chief of Naval Operations, exchanges salutes with CAPT Richard H. Truly, commander of the recently formed U.S. Naval Space Command, during the unit's co - DPLA - a893f94a138ceddbbf58d03a13b56387
Manned Orbiting Laboratory Astronaut Group 1, selected for training in 1965
The two crews for the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) are photographed at the Orbiter assembly facility at Palmdale, California
Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests crews - cropped