Joseph Allen

Desert Island Discs: Archive 1981-1985 by BBC

Apr 13, 198534:24Society & Culture

Joseph Allen, the physicist, joined NASA in 1967 as a scientist astronaut. In conversation with Roy Plomley, he describes his lengthy training as an astronaut, the problems of space flight, and he describes his recent tr...

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