Richard H. Truly - Post-NASA

Post-NASA

After leaving NASA, Adm. Truly became Vice President and Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute, part of the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, Georgia. He served in this role from 1992 to 1997.

Then he served as Director of the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and as Executive Vice President of the Midwest Research Institute from 1997-2005.

In May 2007, Retired Vice Admiral Richard Truly testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as a member of a military advisory board on the subject of the threats to U.S. national security posed by global climate change.

Truly is married and has three children, Michael, Daniel, and Lee Truly.