Former director of NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, General Simon Peter Worden visited the Torun University.

General Worden met the Vice-Rector for Research Prof. Jacek Kubica, director of the Astronomy Center Prof. Michał Hanasz and vice-dean of the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Dr. Winicjusz Drozdowski, Prof. NCU. The meeting was also attended by Mateusz Józefowicz from the ABM Space company in Toruń.

The topics included the development opportunities for the space industry in Toruń, plans to create a selection committee for candidates for the scientific award granted by Simon Worden’s foundation and research projects regarding the search for planets carried out at the Astronomy Center of the Torun University.