Gen. Lew Allen, Jr., Former JPL Director
General Lew Allen, Jr., who was Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 1982-1990, passed away on Monday, according to a JPL news release. He was 84. A nuclear physicist, Allen came to JPL from a distinguished career in the military, including stints as head of the National Security Agency and as Chief of Staff of the Air Force. JPL is a federally funded research and development center operated for NASA by the California Institute of Technology. It is best known for the many planetary exploration spacecraft it has developed and operated.
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