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PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE
JET PROPULSION LABORATORY
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
PASADENA, CALIF. 91109. TELEPHONE (818) 354-5011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Mar. 12, 1990
JPL Director Dr. Lew Allen has been selected to
receive the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, the premier award
of the National Space Club, presented annually for "great
achievement in advancing space flight programs contributing to
U.S. leadership in astronautics."
Allen will be presented with the award at the National
Space Club's yearly Goddard Memorial Dinner to be held at the
Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C., on Friday, Mar. 16.
In honoring Allen, the National Space Club cited his
"distinguished and significant contributions to the nation's
advancement in space, earlier by service with the Air Force and
the strategic defense of the country, and currently by leadership
with NASA in the assurance of U.S. preeminence in planetary
exploration."
Allen was named JPL director and vice president of the
California Institute of Technology in 1982 after his retirement
from the Air Force. His military career culminated in his
assignment as Air Force Chief of Staff and member of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff. Prior to those appointments, Gen. Allen served
in many space-related leadership positions in the Air Force,
including deputy commander for satellite programs, director of
special projects at the Air Force Space and Missile Systems
Organization, deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence,
and commander of the Air Force Systems Command.
During his tenure at JPL, Allen has overseen the teams
responsible for several of the nation's most important
scientific space missions, including the Infrared Astronomical
Satellite (IRAS), the Magellan Venus radar mapper, and Galileo
mission to Jupiter, and the Voyager flybys of Uranus and Neptune.
Allen was born Sept. 30, 1925, in Miami, Fla. He
graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1946.
Assigned to the Strategic Air Command's 7th Bombardment Group at
Carswell Air Force Base, Allen flew B-29 and B-36 aircraft and
served in various positions related to nuclear weaponry.
In 1952, Allen received a master of science degree in
physics from the University of Illinois, and in 1954 was awarded
a doctorate in physics after completing an experimental thesis on
high-energy photonuclear reactions.
Allen is married to the former Barbara Frink Hatch of
Washington, D.C. They have five children and nine
grandchildren. The Allens reside in Pasadena, Calif.
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