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Worden named NASA Ames director
Posted: Sat, Apr 22, 2006, 11:04 AM ET (1504 GMT)
Worden, Pete (USAF) NASA announced Friday that the agency has selected retired Air Force general Pete Worden as the next director of NASA's Ames Research Center in California. Worden, who retired from the Air Force in 2004 at the rank of brigadier general, served in a number of space-related positions in the Air Force, working on projects ranging from missile defense to the Clementine lunar mission. Worden also has a Ph.D in astronomy and after retiring from the Air Force worked as an astronomy professor at the University of Arizona. Worden succeeds Scott Hubbard, who left Ames to join the SETI Institute earlier this year.
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