Joseph P. Allen

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Joseph P. Allen
Joseph P. Allen
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on August 4, 1967
(6th NASA Group)
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		November 11, 1982
Landing of the
last space flight: 		November 16, 1984
Time in space: 13d 1h 58min
EVA inserts: 2
retired on July 1985
Space flights

Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV (born June 27, 1937 in Crawfordsville , Indiana ) is a retired American astronaut who participated in two space flights.

Life

Joe Allen grew up in Crawfordsville , Indiana, and attended elementary school there and Crawfordsville High School. In 1959 he received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. He moved to Yale University , where he received a master’s degree in 1961 and a doctorate in physics four years later .

In 1965 and 1966, Allen worked as a physicist in the Nuclear Structures Laboratory at Yale University. From 1963 to 1967 he was also a visiting research fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory . Before being selected as an astronaut, he worked as a research fellow in the Nuclear Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington .

Astronaut activity

Allen was inducted into NASA 's sixth group of astronauts on August 4, 1967 , the second group consisting not of pilots but of scientists. Allen completed the necessary training to be a pilot at Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma . At Apollo 15 he was a mission scientist and member of the support team. Allen was the liaison speaker ( Capcom ) for both Apollo 15 and Apollo 17 . This was followed by a position as a scientific and technical advisor on the US President's Council for International Economic Policy.

From August 1975 to 1978 Allen was stationed at NASA headquarters in Washington DC and was entrusted with administrative tasks. In 1978 he returned to the Johnson Space Center . There he was involved in planning the first test flight of a space shuttle into orbit and was the liaison officer for this mission. In 1980 and 1981 he worked as a technical assistant to the flight director of NASA.

STS-5

From November 11-16, 1982, Allen participated in STS-5 , his first space flight aboard the Columbia Space Shuttle .

STS-41-H

The STS-41-H mission was to be carried out on behalf of the US Department of Defense in September 1984 or deploy a TDRS satellite instead. The mission was canceled due to problems with the IUS upper level. The crew nominated were Frederick Hauck, David Walker, Joseph Allen, Anna Fisher, Dale Gardner and US Air Force payload specialists Gary Payton and Frank Casserino. Daryl Joseph was scheduled as the replacement payload specialist. Except for the payload specialists, all astronauts came to the STS-51-A mission.

STS-51-A

Its second space flight, STS-51-A aboard the Discovery , began on November 8 and ended on November 16, 1984. Two satellites were launched on each of the two space flights. The second mission also recaptured two satellites that had been launched on the STS-41-B mission in too low an orbit. Allen and colleague Dale Gardner conducted two spacecraft activities to capture the two satellites . Allen spent a total of 13 days in space.

Even before his second flight into space, Allen published the non-fiction book Advance into Space - My Space Flight with the Space Shuttle in 1984 , in which he describes his experiences at STS-5 and impressively illustrates them with 1,000 images.

Leaving NASA

Allen left NASA on July 1, 1985 and became the executive director of Space Industries International in Washington, DC. He later became chairman of Veridian Corporation. He resigned from this post in 2004.

Allen was inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame on April 30, 2005 .

Allen is married and has two children.

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Commons : Joseph P. Allen  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files
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SURNAME Allen, Joseph P.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allen IV, Joseph Percival; Allen, Joe; Allen, Joseph Percival (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Crawfordsville , Indiana