Pete Worden served as a scientific co-investigator for two NASA space science missions, and received the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal for the 1994 Clementine mission.
17 Facts About Pete Worden
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Pete Worden was named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium Laboratory Director of the Year.
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Pete Worden announced his planned resignation from NASA in February 2015, indicating he would be pursuing "some long-held dreams in the private sector".
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At the press conference Pete Worden was introduced as the chairman for the Breakthrough Prize Foundation.
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Pete Worden retired from the United States Air Force in 2004 after 29 years of active service.
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Pete Worden was commissioned in 1971 after receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan.
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Pete Worden entered the Air Force in 1975 after graduating from the University of Arizona with a doctorate in astronomy.
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Pete Worden twice served in the Executive Office of the President.
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Pete 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.
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Pete Worden 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.
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Pete Worden was a key early innovator and proponent in the area of small satellites.
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Pete Worden instituted and championed innovative management and engineering techniques while at BMDO, including rapid prototyping, "build a little test a little", a "badgeless" work environment, and a flat organizational structure.
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Pete Worden "engineered" innovative agreements between NASA Ames and a variety of private sector and public sector partners.
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Pete Worden is actively involved in the International Space University, where, as of 2009, he was a guest teacher in the ISU Space Studies Program, formerly Summer Session Program.
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Pete Worden's support led to the selection of NASA Ames as the host for the 2009 ISU SSP program in the months July and August 2009.
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Pete Worden has long been a proponent of robotic and, more recently, crewed space missions to near-Earth objects.
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Pete Worden is known occasionally to costume, usually dressing as either Darth Vader, a wizard, or after arriving at Ames, as a goat herder.