Ex-NASA Worker Sentenced in Debris Theft Tuesday November 11, 2003 2:31 AM ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A former NASA employee was sentenced Monday to a year of probation and fined $2,000 for stealing a 3-inch piece of shuttle debris while helping to recover parts of Columbia in Texas. Michael Pankiewicz pleaded guilty to misdemeanor theft. His attorney, Paul Byron, said Pankiewicz exercised ``uncharacteristic bad judgment.'' ``He has demonstrated true remorse,'' Byron said. A quality-assurance specialist at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Pankiewicz has since left the agency. He was among hundreds of NASA employee sent to Texas and Louisiana...