Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Elects 2008-2009 Officers and Directors
Kennedy Space Center, FL – The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) recently selected its 2008-2009 Board of Directors and Board of Trustees.
Apollo 15 astronaut Colonel Al Worden will once again chair the Board of Directors for a fourth consecutive year. Assisting him in this venture will be Shuttle astronaut Robert Crippen as Vice Chairman. Attorney Michael Neukamm will once again serve as Treasurer/Secretary and Linn LeBlanc will continue to serve as Executive Director.
Additional 2008 – 2009 Board of Directors include: ASF founders, Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter and Mercury and Shuttle astronaut John Glenn; Gemini and Apollo astronauts Richard Gordon and James Lovell; Apollo astronauts Walter Cunningham, Charles Duke and Edgar Mitchell; Skylab and Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott; Shuttle astronauts Charles Bolden, Dan Brandenstein, Robert “Hoot” Gibson and Rick Hauck; Astronaut Scholars alumni Larry Bradley and Lisa Schott; and Dr. Al Miller, who also chairs the Scholarship Committee.
Chairing the 2008-2009 Board of Trustees is Laura Shepard-Churchley, daughter of Mercury and Apollo astronaut Alan Shepard. Serving alongside her are: LeVar Burton, Gene Cernan, Suzi Cooper, Walter Cronkite, Bill Dana, Tom Hanks, Henri Landwirth, James L. Long, Don Ricci, Jo Schirra, Bobbie Slayton and Thomas Stafford.
Both groups will help guide the Foundation in pursuing its mission of aiding the United States in retaining its world leadership in science and technology by providing scholarships to college students who exhibit motivation, imagination and exceptional performance in the science and engineering field of their major. To date the Foundation has awarded $2.5 million in scholarships. The members will serve a one-year term, until May 2009, when new elections will take place.
The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1984 by the six surviving members of America’s original Mercury astronauts. The Foundation funds nineteen $10,000 scholarships annually. For more information, log on to www.AstronautScholarship.org or call 321-455-7012.
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Elects 2008-2009 Officers and Directors
Kennedy Space Center, FL – The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) recently selected its 2008-2009 Board of Directors and Board of Trustees.
Apollo 15 astronaut Colonel Al Worden will once again chair the Board of Directors for a fourth consecutive year. Assisting him in this venture will be Shuttle astronaut Robert Crippen as Vice Chairman. Attorney Michael Neukamm will once again serve as Treasurer/Secretary and Linn LeBlanc will continue to serve as Executive Director.
Additional 2008 – 2009 Board of Directors include: ASF founders, Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter and Mercury and Shuttle astronaut John Glenn; Gemini and Apollo astronauts Richard Gordon and James Lovell; Apollo astronauts Walter Cunningham, Charles Duke and Edgar Mitchell; Skylab and Shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott; Shuttle astronauts Charles Bolden, Dan Brandenstein, Robert “Hoot” Gibson and Rick Hauck; Astronaut Scholars alumni Larry Bradley and Lisa Schott; and Dr. Al Miller, who also chairs the Scholarship Committee.
Chairing the 2008-2009 Board of Trustees is Laura Shepard-Churchley, daughter of Mercury and Apollo astronaut Alan Shepard. Serving alongside her are: LeVar Burton, Gene Cernan, Suzi Cooper, Walter Cronkite, Bill Dana, Tom Hanks, Henri Landwirth, James L. Long, Don Ricci, Jo Schirra, Bobbie Slayton and Thomas Stafford.
Both groups will help guide the Foundation in pursuing its mission of aiding the United States in retaining its world leadership in science and technology by providing scholarships to college students who exhibit motivation, imagination and exceptional performance in the science and engineering field of their major. To date the Foundation has awarded $2.5 million in scholarships. The members will serve a one-year term, until May 2009, when new elections will take place.
The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1984 by the six surviving members of America’s original Mercury astronauts. The Foundation funds nineteen $10,000 scholarships annually. For more information, log on to www.AstronautScholarship.org or call 321-455-7012.
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Photo courtesy of Kennedy Space Center
Apollo 15 astronaut Colonel Al Worden.
Shuttle astronaut Robert Crippen.
