After working for over 30 years, Firouz Naderi retired in 2016. NASA had a feast and named an asteroid “Naderi 5515” in his honor. The asteroid was discovered by Eleanor F. Helin, an American astronomer, in 1989. Naderi referred to the asteroid and said: “Fortunately, it will never hit the earth.” Now Naderi is retired, but he is cooperating as a counselor with NASA as well as Startups. He is also working as an instructor of the prospective leaders’ training center in Iranian-American Association. Dr. Naderi also gave speeches in different universities such as Oxford, Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, USLE, Toronto, British Columbia, and a lot of other universities.
