Editing Lew Allen (section)

==Retirement==
Allen did not believe that crewed spaceflight was useful. He reportedly told a [[Manned Spaceflight Engineer|manned spaceflight engineer]] that he had helped cancel [[Manned Orbiting Laboratory]] in the 1960s, and would have canceled the [[Space Shuttle program]].<ref name="cassutt">{{Cite magazine |last=Cassutt |first=Michael |date=August 2009 |title=The Secret Space Shuttles |url=https://www.airspacemag.com/space/secret-space-shuttles-35318554/ |magazine=Air & Space |language=en |access-date=2021-06-19}}</ref> Following his retirement from the Air Force in 1982, Allen became the director of the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] (JPL), during part of the [[Voyager Program]] (space probes launched in 1977), and he served as the director of the JPL until 1990.

Allen was a member of the [[National Academy of Engineering]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members+By+UNID/FC59400336B81DCD852569E00060F1FA?opendocument |title=Dr. Lew Allen Jr. |publisher=National Academy of Engineering |access-date=2006-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615043313/http://www.nae.edu/nae/naepub.nsf/Members%2BBy%2BUNID/FC59400336B81DCD852569E00060F1FA?opendocument |archive-date=2006-06-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the [[Council on Foreign Relations]].

From 1993 to 1995, Allen served as a member of the [[President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board]] (PFIAB) and the [[Intelligence Oversight Board]].<ref name="multi1">{{cite web|year=1999|title=Association of Graduates, USMA|work=1999 Distinguished Graduate Award|url=http://www.aogusma.org/aog/awards/DGA/99cit/L-Allen.htm|access-date=2006-04-15|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20060410115112/http://www.aogusma.org/aog/awards/DGA/99cit/L-Allen.htm|archive-date=2006-04-10}}</ref>

Allen was awarded the 1999 Distinguished Graduate Award of the Association of Graduates, the alumni association of West Point graduates.<ref name="multi1" />

Allen died in [[Potomac Falls, Virginia]], on 4 January 2010, of complications from [[rheumatoid arthritis]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/us/09allen.html | work=The New York Times | first=Douglas | last=Martin | title=Gen. Lew Allen, Who Lifted Veil on Security Agency, Is Dead at 84 | date=January 9, 2010}}</ref>  He was buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]] on March 22, 2010.<ref>[https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgVhbGxlbhIDbGV3/ Burial Detail: Allen, Lew] – ANC Explorer</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.af.mil/News/story/id/123196350/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120720071804/http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123196350|url-status=live|archive-date=2012-07-20|title = Former chief of staff laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery}}</ref>