About the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation

More than 70 astronauts are helping the United States retain its world leadership in science and technology by providing scholarships for college students who exhibit motivation, imagination, and exceptional performance in the science or engineering field of their major.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation was established originally in 1984 as the Mercury Seven Foundation by the six surviving members of America's original Mercury Seven astronauts, Mrs. Betty Grissom (widow of the seventh, Virgil "Gus" Grissom), William Douglas, M.D. (the Project Mercury flight surgeon), and Henri Landwirth, an Orlando businessman and friend of the astronauts. The founding astronauts were Malcolm Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper Jr., John H. Glenn Jr., Walter M. Schirra, Alan B. Shepard Jr., and Donald K. (Deke) Slayton. Currently, Apollo astronaut Al Worden is Chairman of the foundation's Board of Directors and STS-1 shuttle astronaut Robert Crippen serves as Vice Chairman.

The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

For more information about the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, please visit AstronautScholarship.org.

Our contact information:

By email:
ASF@AstronautScholarship.org

By standard mail:
Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
6225 Vectorspace Blvd.
Titusville, FL 32780

By phone:
321-455-7015 (between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time)


ASF@AstronautScholarship.org