E. Charbonneau/WireImage Allen welcomed his first daughter, Katherine, in December 1989 with then-wife Laura Deibel. The couple eventually separated in 1999 and finalized their divorce in 2003.

That’s well into the inner band of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts, which begin at around 600 miles in altitude.

Will Oremus writes about the ideas, products and power struggles shaping the digital world for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post in 2021, he spent eight years as Slate's senior ...