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Obituaries

Richard Truly, astronaut and NASA administrator, dies at 86

Richard H. Truly, a naval aviator, test pilot and astronaut who helped rebuild NASA’s space shuttle program after the Challenger explosion in 1986 and later oversaw the entire space agency as its top administrator, died Feb. 27 at his home in Genesee, Colo. He was 86.



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Zvi Zamir, Israeli spy chief amid war and tragedy, dies at 98

Zvi Zamir, an Israeli spymaster who watched in horror in 1972 as the hostage-taking of Israeli Olympic team members by Palestinian militants at the Munich Games ended in a deadly firefight and who then directed a covert campaign to strike back at Palestinian terrorist networks, died Jan. 2. He was 98.

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