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Which organization did John P. Allen direct when Biosphere 2 was planned?
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Biosphere 2
Biosphere 2, located in Oracle, Arizona, U.S., shown in 2008. The facility was originally developed to study survivability and assess whether humans were capable of building and living in self-sustaining colonies in outer space. It was later used as a scientific research facility.
When the Biosphere 2 facility was being planned in the 1980s, John P. Allen served as the director of Space Biospheres Ventures. This organization was a joint venture that purchased the Arizona property in 1984 to develop the project.1