home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- MILESTONES, Page 68
-
-
- 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.
-
-
-
-
-
-