AS NUSTAR ENTERS ITS SIXTH YEAR OF OPERATIONS IT HAS YET TO PERFORM A DEEP OBSERVATION OF AN ELLIPTICAL GALAXY TO STUDY THE LOW-MASS XRAY BINARY (LMXB) POPULATION ASSOCIATED WITH OLDER STELLAR AGES. MAFFEI 1 IS THE NEAREST GIANT ELLIPTICAL GALAXY AT 3.4 MPC AND AS SUCH PROVIDES A UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT TO INVESTIGATE THE ACCRETING BLACK HOLE (BH) AND NEUTRON STAR (NS) POPULATIONS IN THE SENSITIVE E>10 KEV BANDPASS. DUE TO ITS PROXIMITY IT IS THE ONLY ELLIPTICAL WHERE THE RESOLVED X-RAY BINARY (XRB) POPULATION CAN BE STUDIED AT HARD X-RAY ENERGIES UNTIL A NEXT GENERATION HARD X-RAY TELESCOPE IS FLOWN. WE REQUEST A 200 KS NUSTAR OBSERVATION OF THE GIANT ELLIPTICAL GALAXY MAFFEI 1 TO STUDY THE FORMATION CHANNELS OF NS AND BH POPULATIONS BOTH IN GLOBULAR CLUSTER (GC) AND FIELD ENVIRONMENTS.