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- Feb. 24, 1992: Resignation Announced:Richard Truly
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 24, 1992 Holy Alliance
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 68
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- <p> RESIGNATION ANNOUNCED. By Richard Truly, 54, embattled head
- of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; in
- Washington. Truly, a former astronaut who helped put the U.S.
- back in space after the 1986 Challenger shuttle disaster, was
- forced to step down by the White House. Truly had a running feud
- with the National Space Council, headed by Vice President Dan
- Quayle, about the direction of NASA.The council frequently
- criticized NASA programs as too costly and time consuming. Truly
- also inherited some major setbacks at NASA, including the
- discovery of a flawed mirror on the Hubble Space Telescope.
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- </body></article>
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