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Richard Truly, astronaut and NASA administrator, dies at 86

Richard H. Truly, a naval aviator, test pilot and astronaut who helped rebuild NASA’s space shuttle program after the Challenger explosion in 1986 and later oversaw the entire space agency as its top administrator, died Feb. 27 at his home in Genesee, Colo. He was 86.

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