Bidspirit auction | Astronaut Richard Truly signed Gulfstream

Astronaut Richard Truly signed Gulfstream II Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) FDC PM Edwards, CA Jun 29 AM 1981 93523. In 1965, Truly was among the first military astronauts selected to the United States Air Force's Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) program in Los Angeles, California. He joined NASA Astronaut Group 7 in August 1969 after the cancellation of the MOL program. At NASA, he was a member of the astronaut support crew and capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for all three of the crewed Skylab missions in 1973, and the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. He flew twice on one of the two-man crews for the 1977 Approach and Landing Tests of the Space Shuttle Enterprise, and on the STS-2 mission in 1981, becoming the first man to be launched into space on his birthday. Truly then served as commander of STS-8 in 1983. After STS-8, Truly left NASA to become the first commander of the Naval Space Command.