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 Wade Allen grew up during the space program that stirred his interest in astronomy. Although he was not accepted as an astronaut due to vision restrictions, Wade has been working with the public teaching astronomy from preschoolers to college courses through informal to structured lectures over thirty years. After a career of Engineering, he became Curator of Astronomy at the Dayton Museum of Natural History, later the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, after twenty years of volunteering. Wade currently lectures at John Bryan State Park and Greene County Parks. He has traveled to many of the major observatories such as Palomar, Yerkes, Lick and Mount Wilson. He attended the JPL Educators' Conference for the Voyager flyby of Neptune, and has been to two total solar eclipses in 1979 and 1991. Over the years, Wade has collected over 400 astronomy publications and hopes to write his own astronomy book for his astronomy class.
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