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NASA Ames Director Gen. S. Pete Worden To Speak At 11th Annual International Mars Society Convention
We are pleased to announce that Dr. S. Pete Worden (Brig. Gen., USAF, ret.) will be speaking at The Mars Society Convention that will be taking place from August 14-17, 2008 in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Worden currently serves as the Director of the NASA Ames Research Center.
Dr. Worden received a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of
Michigan. He entered the Air Force in 1975 after graduating from the
University of Arizona with a doctorate in astronomy.
Dr. Worden has served as a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on space-related issues. During the 2004 Congressional Session, Dr. Worden worked as a Congressional Fellow with the Office of Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), where he served as the Senator's chief advisor on NASA and space issues. He has twice served in the Executive Office of the President.
In 2004, Dr. Worden retired after 29 years of active service in the United States Air Force. His final position was Director of Development and Transformation, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA. In this position he was responsible for developing new directions for Air Force Space Command programs and was instrumental in initiating a major Responsive Space Program designed to produce space systems and launchers capable of tailored military effects on timescales of hours.
Dr. Worden commanded the 50th Space Wing that is responsible for more than 60 Department of Defense satellites and more than 6,000 people at 23 worldwide locations. He then served as Deputy Director for Requirements at Headquarters Air Force Space Command, as well as the Deputy Director for Command and Control with the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations at Air Force headquarters.
Dr. Worden has written or co-written more than 150 scientific technical papers in astrophysics, space sciences and strategic studies. He was a scientific co-investigator for two NASA space science missions.
REGISTER NOW FOR A SPECTACULAR CONVENTION!
WHERE: Back to where it all began in 1998: University Memorial Center, University Of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
WHEN: August 14-17, 2008
REGISTRATION: Available online
HOTEL INFORMATION: Available online
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: Do you want to give a talk? Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to marsabstracts@aol.com.
SPEAKERS: We have an impressive list of knowledgeable, inspiring speakers already scheduled:
Dr. Worden has served as a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on space-related issues. During the 2004 Congressional Session, Dr. Worden worked as a Congressional Fellow with the Office of Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), where he served as the Senator's chief advisor on NASA and space issues. He has twice served in the Executive Office of the President.
In 2004, Dr. Worden retired after 29 years of active service in the United States Air Force. His final position was Director of Development and Transformation, Space and Missile Systems Center, Air Force Space Command, Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA. In this position he was responsible for developing new directions for Air Force Space Command programs and was instrumental in initiating a major Responsive Space Program designed to produce space systems and launchers capable of tailored military effects on timescales of hours.
Dr. Worden commanded the 50th Space Wing that is responsible for more than 60 Department of Defense satellites and more than 6,000 people at 23 worldwide locations. He then served as Deputy Director for Requirements at Headquarters Air Force Space Command, as well as the Deputy Director for Command and Control with the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations at Air Force headquarters.
Dr. Worden has written or co-written more than 150 scientific technical papers in astrophysics, space sciences and strategic studies. He was a scientific co-investigator for two NASA space science missions.
REGISTER NOW FOR A SPECTACULAR CONVENTION!
WHERE: Back to where it all began in 1998: University Memorial Center, University Of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado.
WHEN: August 14-17, 2008
REGISTRATION: Available online
HOTEL INFORMATION: Available online
SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: Do you want to give a talk? Please submit an abstract of no more than 300 words to marsabstracts@aol.com.
SPEAKERS: We have an impressive list of knowledgeable, inspiring speakers already scheduled:
- J. Michael Straczynski (Creator of Babylon 5) - Tentative
- Dr. Alan Stern (former Associate Administrator, NASA Science Directorate)
- Dr. S. Pete Worden (Brig. Gen., USAF, ret.; NASA Ames Research Center Director)
- Elon Musk (Founder and CEO of SpaceX)
- Dr. Jim Garvin (Chief Scientist, NASA Goddard)
- Dr. Carolyn Porco (Cassini Imaging Team Leader)
- Dr. Chris McKay (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Dr. Carol Stoker (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Dr. Bill Clancey (NASA Ames Research Center)
- Dr. Matt Mountain (Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Dr. Michael Simpson (International Space University)
- Geoffrey Yoder (NASA - Director, Directorate Integration Office - Exploration Systems Mission Directorate)
- Dr. Robert Braun (Georgia Tech)
- Joe Cassady (Aerojet: Director for Business Development in Emerging Space markets)
- George Whitesides (Executive Director, National Space Society)
- Dr. Robert Zubrin (President and Founder, The Mars Society
- Dr. Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11) Tentative
- Brother Guy Consolmagno (Vatican Observatory; Curator, Vatican Meteorite Collection)
- Dr. Ted Peters (Co-Editor: Theology and Science; The CTNS Journal of Science and Religion)
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