Name: Truly, Richard Country: USA M/F: M Number of Flights: 2* / 5

ALT Flights Date of Flight - Shuttle ALT Flight Notes
*1. ALT Flight 2 June 28, 1977 - Enterprise Captive Carry Flight 2 - Tail cone on
*2. ALT Flight 5 September 13, 1977 - Enterprise Free Flight 2 - Tail cone on
*3. ALT Flight 7 October 12, 1977 - Enterprise Free Flight 4 - Tail cone off
Space Flights Launch Date - Shuttle Landing Date - Shuttle
4. STS-2 November 12, 1981 - Columbia November 14, 1981 - Columbia
5. STS-8 August 30, 1983 - Challenger September 5, 1983 - Challenger

Space Flights Descriptions
Skylab 2
(Support Crew)
First manned Skylab mission
Skylab 3
(Support Crew)
Second manned Skylab mission
Skylab 4
(Support Crew)
Third and final manned Skylab mission
MOL-6
(Cancelled)
Fourth manned flight of the Manned Orbital Laboratory (MOL)
The Navy wanted an all-Navy crew for the fourth manned flight of the MOL, which would limit the crew to Truly with either Overmyer or Crippen as co-pilot. The MOL program was cancelled in June 1969.
Apollo ASTP
(Support Crew)
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project - Docked with Soyuz 19
STS-1
(Backup Crew)
First Flight of the Space Shuttle
ALT Flights Pilot of second crew of the Approach and Landing Tests
*1. Flight 2
- June 28, 1977 - Enterprise (Captive Carry Flight 2 - Tail cone on)
*2. Flight 5 - September 13, 1977 - Enterprise (Free Flight 2 - Tail cone on)
*3. Flight 7 - October 12, 1977 - Enterprise (Free Flight 4 - Tail cone off)
* Doesn't count as a flight for Truly
4. STS-2 Office of Space and Terrestrial Applications Payload 1 (OSTA-1)
Remote Sensing Experiments - Shorten Mission
5. STS-8 Deployed INSAT 1B for India

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Space Shuttle Program - ALT / 1981 (R&D) 1983

Updated - June 5, 2006