Allen Frances Donovan (1914 to 1995) was an American aeronautical engineer who became a senior figure in the management of United States military space work. He worked for several aeronautical firms between 1936 and 1946, then headed the aeronautical mechanics department at Cornell University from 1946 to 1955. From 1955 to 1960 he was at Ramo-Wooldridge, where he took part in defining the Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile and the Pioneer satellite programs. In 1960 he became a founding member and Senior Vice President, Technical, of the Aerospace Corporation, a post he held until 1978. In that role he supervised all United States Air Force space projects of the period, including the Titan launch family and military satellites. He also served on government advisory boards, among them the President's Science Advisory Committee from 1959 to 1968. He died on 11 March 1995.
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American engineer.
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Founding member and Senior Vice President, Technical, Aerospace Corp, 1960-1978
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As head of its aeronautics laboratory, he headed the development of the re-entry vehicles for the Atlas rocket family, and later for Titan and Thor.
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