Joseph P. Allen

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Joe Allen
NASA astronaut
Time in space
13d 1h 58m
SelectionNASA Group 6 (1967)
MissionsSTS-5
STS-51-A
Mission insignia
RetirementJuly 1, 1985
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
Institutions
ThesisStudies of Odd-A Nuclei in the 2S-1D Shell (1965)
Doctoral advisorD. Allan Bromley

Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV (born June 27, 1937) is an American former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.

Early life and education

Allen was born in

Richard F. Casten.[3]

Allen was a research associate in the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington prior to his selection as an astronaut. He was a staff physicist at the Nuclear Structure Laboratory at Yale University in 1965 and 1966, and during the period 1963 to 1967, served as a guest researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory

NASA experience

Allen was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967 as a member of the second group of

scientist-astronauts.[4] He completed flight training at Vance Air Force Base, Oklahoma. He served as mission scientist while a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 15
and served as a staff consultant on science and technology to the President's Council on International Economic Policy.

From August 1975 to 1978, Allen served as NASA Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs in

CAPCOM during the reentry phase for this mission. In addition, in 1980 and 1981, he worked as the technical assistant to the director of flight operations.[5]

Space experience

Allen training for planned STS-5 spacewalk

Allen served as mission specialist on

spacesuits that were to be used developed problems.[6] The STS-5 crew successfully concluded the 5-day orbital flight of Space Shuttle Columbia with the first entry and landing through a cloud deck to a hard-surface runway and demonstrated maximum braking. STS-5 completed 81 orbits of the Earth in 122 hours before landing on a concrete runway at Edwards Air Force Base, California
, on November 16, 1982.

Allen (standing at right) with the crew of STS-51-A

Allen was a mission specialist on

Palapa B-2 and Westar
VI communications satellites. STS 51-A completed 127 orbits of the Earth in 192 hours before landing at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 16, 1984. With the completion of this flight Allen logged a total of 314 hours in space.

Post-NASA experience

Allen served as chief executive officer of Space Industries International, Washington, D.C., and later was chairman of Veridian, until he retired in 2004. General Dynamics announced its acquisition of Veridian on June 9, 2003.

In the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, Allen was played by Doug McKeon.

In the 1998 movie Armageddon, directed by Michael Bay, Allen served as a NASA consultant and cameoed as "Kennedy Launch" during the launching of the X-71 shuttles.

Personal life

Allen married Bonnie Jo Darling of Elkhart, Indiana in 1961. They have two children. Bonnie died in 2021.[7]

Allen has another daughter with photographer Laura Prince.[8]

Works

  • Entering Space: An Astronaut's Odyssey (1985)
    ISBN 0-941434-74-5

Allen was a contributor to the book NASA's Scientist-Astronauts by David Shayler and Colin Burgess.

Organizations

Allen is a member of several organizations, including the American Physical Society, the American Astronautical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Phi Eta Sigma.

Special honors

Allen performing Earth observation on STS-5 in 1982

Allen was one of three shuttle astronaut inducted into the

U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2005.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Joe Allen '59 Enters US Astronaut Hall of Fame" Archived September 20, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, DePauw University News, May 1, 2005
  2. OCLC 162101874 – via ProQuest
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  3. ^ Zierler, David (June 25, 2020). "Interview of Richard Casten". Niels Bohr Library & Archives. American Institute of Physics. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
  4. ^ "New Citizens to be Astros". Muncie Evening Press. Muncie, Indiana. UPI. August 3, 1967. p. 19 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "JOSEPH P. ALLEN (PH.D.) NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)" (PDF). NASA. December 1993. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
  6. ^ Harwood, William (February 10, 2008). "Mission controllers release revised flight plan". Spaceflight Now. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
  7. ^ "Bonnie Allen Obituary (1939 - 2021) - Washington, IN - The Elkhart Truth". Legacy.com.
  8. ^ Dieter, Mary. "An otherworldly experience: Prof and student to put poetry on the moon". DePauw University. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
  9. ^ "DePauw Grads Hear Trudeau". The Indianapolis News. Indianapolis, Indiana. May 23, 1983. p. 11 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Hall of Fame Inducts McCandless, 1st Untethered Astronaut". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. Associated Press. May 1, 2005. p. 34 – via Newspapers.com.

Sources

External links

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