Joe Allen
Joseph Percival Allen, is a former NASA astronaut. Allen was born June 27, 1937 in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Received a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and physics from DePauw University in 1959, and a master of science degree and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics from Yale University in 1961 and 1965, respectively. 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. Allen was selected as a scientist-astronaut by NASA in August 1967 as a member of the second group of scientist-astronauts. 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. Allen served as mission specialist on STS-5, the first fully operational flight of the Shuttle Transportation System, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 11, 1982. He was a mission specialist on STS 51-A, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 8, 1984. Allen served as chief executive officer of Space Industries International, Washington, D.C., and later was chairman of Veridian, until he retired in 2004.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-5 MSP 11.11. - 16.11.1982 5d 02h 14m
2 STS-51A MSP 08.11. - 16.11.1984 7d 23h 44m
Total 13d 01h 58m
