According to Wikipedia, Simon Peter Worden was Director of NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, California, until his retirement on March 31, 2015. Prior to joining NASA, he held several positions in the United States Air Force and was research professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is a recognized expert on space issues – both civil and military. Worden has authored or co-authored more than 150 scientific papers in astrophysics, space sciences, and strategic studies. He served as a scientific co-investigator for two NASA space science missions, and received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for the 1994 Clementine mission. He was named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium Laboratory Director of the Year.
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Defense Horizons. Responsive Space and Strategic Information. April 2004, Number 40 (2004) (5)
Responsive Space and Strategic Information (5)
The Near-Earth Space Surveillance (NESS) Mission: Discovery, Tracking, and Characterization of Asteroids, Comets, and Artificial Satellites with a Microsatellite (2001) (4)
The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) Mission Will Conduct an Efficient Space-Based Asteroid Survey at Low Solar Elongations (2008) (4)
The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) Mission Enables an Efficient Space-Based Survey (NESS Project) of Interior-to-Earth-Orbit (IEO) Asteroids (2007) (3)
