A University of Virginia student reaches for the stars Tuesday night. This is the first time someone from UVA has received the Astronaut Scholarship award.
Hannah Meredith is a biomedical engineering major who hopes to obtain her Ph.D. Tuesday, she was presented with the astronaut award by the sixth man to set foot on the moon - Apollo Astronaut Edgar Mitchell.
Meredith is from Richmond, and is currently a fourth year student at UVA. She plans to use the $10,000 scholarship to continue her education through graduate school. Meredith is one of only 26 students to receive the award nationwide.
"Graduate school is definitely in the plan. After that, I'm not really sure. Maybe opening up my own lab, but that's 5 or 6 years down the road," Meredith said.
Meredith says it was an honor to receive the award from Mitchell. He was a lunar module pilot on the Apollo 14 mission that lifted off back in 1971.
Wherever her career takes her, Meredith says this is a day she will remember for the rest of her life.
The Astronaut Scholarship has been around since 1984.
