Truly, Dick
Biography
Dick Truly was ordered to flight school and was designated a Naval Aviator on October 7, 1960. His initial tour of duty was in Fighter Squadron 33 where he flew F-8 Crusaders aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid (CVA-11) and USS Enterprise and made more than 300 carrier landings.
He then went on to work for NASA in 1969 where he worked on the Enterprise, the Columbia, and the Challenger missions. Before becoming the eigth NASA administrator in 1989, Truly retired from the Navy as a Vice Admiral.
After his retirement from NASA, Truly became Vice President and Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, part of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia. He served in this role from 1992 - 1997