Pete Worden

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Pete Worden , actually Simon Peter Worden , (* 1948 ) is an American astrophysicist and former brigadier general.

Pete Warden studied physics and astronomy at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor (BA 1971) and the University of Arizona , Tucson (Ph.D. 1975). He joined the United States Air Force in 1971 , most recently having the rank of Brigadier General .

He served u. a. as a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in 2004 he retired from the Air Force and was Research Professor of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, Tucson until 2006. From May 4, 2006 to March 31, 2015, he was director of the Ames Research Center at NASA .

Since July 2015 the Executive Director of the private project Breakthrough Starshot by Juri Milner . Its aim is to prove that it is possible to accelerate small space missiles with light sails to a fifth of the speed of light using very strong laser light and thus first to reach Alpha Centauri , the star system closest to the sun , to determine data there and send it back to earth .

Since May 2016, Worden has also been a member of the advisory board of the “Space Resources” initiative of the Luxembourg government, which aims to mine universal raw materials.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography of Pete Worden on the United States Air Force website ; Retrieved April 18, 2016
  2. ↑ Biography of Pete Worden on the NASA website ; Retrieved April 18, 2016
  3. ↑ NASA: NASA and NACA Center Directors. April 4, 2016, accessed April 19, 2016 .
  4. ^ Leaders - Management and Advisory Committee. Breakthrough Initiatives, accessed April 18, 2016
  5. ↑ Appointment of the lux. Government. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 11, 2016 ; accessed on May 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spaceresources.public.lu

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SURNAME Have been, Pete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Worden, Simon Peter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1948