Topic: Pete Worden

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., July 30 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says a Canadian university will become the first international affiliate partner of the agency's Lunar Science Institute.

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., May 13 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its 2007 Government Invention of the Year is a heat shield insulation material.

WASHINGTON, April 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it is preparing to send a small spacecraft to the moon in 2011 to assess the lunar atmosphere and its surface dust.

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., July 23 (UPI) --

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 (UPI) -- Legislation that creates financial incentives for amateur astronomers to locate and track large celestial debris capable of striking Earth would be welcomed by professional astronomers, according to testimony presented on Capitol Hill.

ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Celestial objects crossing Earth's orbit threaten society in ways far more realistic than the doomsday Hollywood portrays in films such as "Armageddon," an Air Force general said Thursday.