- Born
- Birth nameJoseph Percival Allen
- Joseph P. Allen was born on June 27, 1937 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, USA. He is known for Armageddon (1998), Mission to Mars (2000) and Horizon (1964).
- SpouseBonnie Jo Darling (2 children)
- Children: David Christopher Allen (born in September 1968) and Elizabeth Darling Allen (born in May 1972).
- Earned a Fulbright Scholarship to Germany, 1959-1960.
- Dr. Allen was a mission specialist on STS 51-A, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on November 8, 1984. In the first space salvage attempt in history, the crew successfully retrieved the Palapa B-2 and Westar VI communications satellites and returned them to Earth.
- Dr. 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.
- From August 1975 to 1978, Dr. Allen served as NASA Assistant Administrator for Legislative Affairs in Washington, D.C. Returning to the Johnson Space Center in 1978, as a senior scientist astronaut, Allen was assigned to the Operations Mission Development Group. He served as a support crew member for the first orbital flight test of the Space Transportation System.
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