Contacts: Bong Wie, Aerospace Engineering, bongwie@iastate.edu William Byrd, Iowa Space Grant Consortium, 515 294-3106, wbyrd@iastate.edu Mary Jo Glanville, Engineering Communications and Marketing, 515 294-8787, mglanvil@iastate.edu Ames, Iowa—The Iowa State University Asteroid Deflection Research Center (ADRC), established in April 2008, has won its first research contract to study and develop technologies to mitigate the threat posed …Continue reading “Iowa State research center wins grant to study asteroid deflection”