Joseph P. Allen

American - (NASA)

Retired

Date of Birth: June 27, 1937
Age: 87

Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV, Ph.D. is a former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft. Allen is married to the former Bonnie Jo Darling of Elkhart, Indiana. Their children are David Christopher, born September 1968 and Elizabeth Darling, born May 1972.

Spaceflight Record

Joseph P. Allen flew on two previous launch(es).

Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-5

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Nov. 11, 1982, 12:19 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-5 was the first operational flight of the Space Shuttle and it deployed a 10 satellite into orbit. It carried four crew members.

Low Earth Orbit

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Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-A

National Aeronautics and Space Administration | United States of America
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Nov. 8, 1984, 12:15 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

STS-51-A was the fourteenth flight of the Space Shuttle program and second flight for the Space Shuttle Discovery. The mission lasted 8 days and deployed a number of 10 satellites.

Low Earth Orbit

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Administrator: Bill Nelson

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Recent Launches

Falcon 9

Success

5 hours, 13 minutes ago

Starlink Group 6-77

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 23 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Electron

Success

2 days, 14 hours ago

Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes

Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Launch of a yet to identified satellite to SSO for an undisclosed customer. The customer is suspected to be Low Earth Orbit communication satellite c…

Falcon 9

Success

2 days, 23 hours ago

Dragon CRS-2 SpX-31

Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

31st commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commer…

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M

Success

3 days, 2 hours ago

Ionosfera-M 1 & 2

Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

Ionosfera is a constellation of four ionospheric and magnetospheric research satellites developed by for Roscosmos for the project Ionozond. The s…

H3-22

Success

3 days, 18 hours ago

DSN 3 (Kirameki 3)

Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-2 - Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

DSN 3, also known as Kirameki 3, is a geostationary communications satellite to be used for military communications by the Japanese military.