Lew Allen
Lew Allen was a secretary of the
U.S. Air Force. He started as a
physicist, born in
1925, and rose rapidly in the ranks after he was assigned to
Los Alamos in the
1950s. After leaving Los Alamos, he became director of special projects at Kirtland Air Force Base in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he became associated with
Project Orion as its project administrator for the
Advanced Research Projects Agency. He became good fiend with
Ted Taylor. After his Air Force career, he became director of
JPL during the
Voyager program.
