Richard Truly, space shuttle astronaut and NASA administrator, dies at 86

A man in a dark shirt holds what looks like a cordless phone inside the cockpit of a spacecraft.

Richard "Dick" Truly, who was one of the first astronauts to fly on the space shuttle and later led NASA as its eighth administrator, has died at the age of 86.

Truly's death on Tuesday (Feb. 27) was confirmed by the Association of Space Explorers, a professional organization for the world's astronauts and cosmonauts, which counted Truly as a life member.