Andrew M. Allen

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Andrew Allen
Andrew Allen
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 5, 1987
(12th NASA Group)
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight:
July 31, 1992
Landing of the
last space flight:
March 9, 1996
Time in space: 37d 16h 12min
retired on October 1997
Space flights

Andrew Michael "Andy" Allen (born August 4, 1955 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , USA ) is a former American astronaut .

He is married and has four kids. His hobbies are woodwork, weight lifting and cycling. On his first two space flights (1992 STS-46 and 1994 STS-62 ) he was a pilot, on his third and last ( STS-75 , 1996) he was a commander. On October 1, 1997, he left NASA .

Space flights

Flight with STS-46

On July 31, 1992, the mission took off from launch pad 39-B of the Kennedy Space Center at a height of 426 kilometers. After solving some technical problems, the European platform EURECA was suspended. The US-Italian tethered satellite TSS-1 was also suspended, but had to be retrieved because the rope only rolled about a tenth of its length (20 kilometers). Smaller experiments were also held. After 7 days, 23 hours and 15 minutes, Allen's first mission returned to KSC on August 8, 1992.

Flight with STS-62

On March 4, 1994, the research mission started from launch pad 39-B in the Kennedy Space Center . After performing the experiments, Allen's second mission returned to Earth. The landing in Florida took place on March 18, 1994. Allen and the rest of the crew had been underway for 13 days, 23 hours and 16 minutes.

Flight with STS-75

On February 22, 1996, the mission started from launch pad 39-B of the Kennedy Space Center at an orbit height of 296 kilometers. In addition to smaller experiments in various scientific fields, the Italian TSS-1R tethered satellite was deployed, but to no avail, as the connection cable tore off after a distance of 19 kilometers and the satellite could no longer be captured. On March 9, 1996, Allen's third and final mission landed back on its launch site. The mission lasted 15 days, 17 hours and 41 minutes.

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