Space Shuttle astronaut Joe Allen: Public Lecture and Astronaut Scholarship Presentation

Allen will present Miami University student Prashant Rajan with a $10,000 scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) during a public presentation and ceremony.

Allen will share his experiences from taking part in two space shuttle missions, as well as serving on the backup crew for Apollo 15.

He was a nuclear physics research associate at the University of Washington when NASA selected him as one of 11 scientist-astronauts in 1967.
After serving in several administrative positions with NASA, including four years at headquarters, he returned in 1981 to Johnson Space Center where he helped support the first Space Shuttle flight.

He flew on two Space Shuttle missions, both milestone flights: STS-5, the first operational mission on Columbia in 1982 and STS-51A, the first satellite salvage mission on Discovery in 1982.

Allen left NASA in 1985. He served as chief executive officer of Space Industries International, and later was chairman of Veridian Corp. until he retired in 2004. Allen is an active member of the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation.