Million Dollar Mentorship
Dec. 13, 2024
$50K Grant and Visionary Guidance Leads to $1M NASA-Funded Asteroid Research Project
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Reddy and Battle prepare to take spectra of meteorites that will help them better understand asteroid surfaces. These measurements are taken in the lab at the Kuiper Space Science Building, where Reddy and Battle also characterize human-made space objects as part of the Space4 Center’s space domain awareness mission.
Leslie Hawthorne Klingler
An internal grant, a telescope in Australia and a visionary mentor set the stage for Adam Battle to secure a $1M NASA grant just months after earning his doctoral degree.