Richard H. Truly U.S. Space Program collection, 1969-1997 [manuscript].

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established as an independent agency of the executive branch on October 1, 1958 by the National Aeronautics and Space Act (72 Stat. 426), approved July 29, 1958. It superseded the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). NASA conducted redsearch on problems of flight, developed aeronautical and space vehicles, explored outer space, and participated in international programs for the peaceful development of space technology....

Young, John, 1930-2018

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John Young was an American astronaut, naval officer and aviator, test pilot, and aeronautical engineer. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon as commander of the Apollo 16 mission in 1972. He flew on four different classes of spacecraft: Gemini, the Apollo command and service module, the Apollo Lunar Module and the Space Shuttle. Before becoming an astronaut, Young received his Bachelor of Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology and joined the U.S. Navy. After serving at sea du...

Bush, George, 1924-2018

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George Herbert Walker Bush (1924-2018) was Vice President of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and the 41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1992. He was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, to Dorothy Walker Bush and Prescott Bush (who was a Republican Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962). He graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts on his 18th birthday, June 12, 1942. That same day, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy as a Seaman 2nd Class. Receiving ...

Quayle, Dan, 1947-

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James Danforth Quayle (born February 4, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 44th vice president of the United States from 1989 to 1993. Quayle was also a U.S. representative from 1977 to 1981 and a U.S. senator from 1981 to 1989 from the state of Indiana. A native of Indianapolis, Indiana, Quayle spent most of his childhood in Paradise Valley, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona. He married Marilyn Tucker in 1972 and obtained his J.D. degree from the Indiana University Rober...

Challenger (Spacecraft)

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Space Shuttle Challenger (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation OV-099) was NASA's second Space Shuttle orbiter to be put into service, after Columbia. Its maiden voyage was on April 4, 1983 and it made eight further round trips to low earth orbit before breaking up 73 seconds into the launch of its tenth mission, on January 28, 1986 killing all seven crew members. It would later be replaced by the space shuttle Endeavour, which would be launched six years after the 51-L disaster. Challenger was c...

Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)

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United States. Naval Space Command

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Georgia Tech Research Institute

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The Engineering Experiment Station (EES) was created by the General Assembly of Georgia in 1919 to develop natural resources, industries and commerce in Georgia. The EES did not become an active unit until 1934 due to an initial lack of funding. Starting in 1946, EES began to receive federal funding and contracts which allowed it to experience an extended period of growth during the 1950-1960s. It was during this period that EES began to do research and development projects for the federal defen...

Truly, Richard

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Admiral Richard H. Truly was an instructor at the U.S. Air Force Aerospace Research Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California from 1963-1965. In 1965 he became one of the first military astronauts for U.S. Air Force. He transferred to the NASA astronaut program in 1969. He served as capsule communicator for all three Skylab missions and worked on the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. In 1977 he piloted the Space Shuttle Enterprise approach and landing tests. He piloted the Space Shuttle Colum...

Reagan, Ronald, 1911-2004

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (1911-2004) was the 40th President of the United States and served two terms in office from 1981 to 1989. He was born on February 6, 1911, in Tampico, Illinois, the second son of Nelle Wilson and John Edward ("Jack") Reagan. His father nicknamed him "Dutch" as a baby. In 1920 the family resettled in Dixon, Illinois. In 1928 Reagan graduated from Dixon High School, where he had been student body president, an actor in school plays, and a student athlete. He partici...

United States. Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident

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