David R. Scott
Commander of the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission, it was the first to use a lunar rover. David R. Scott flew on Gemini VIII, was Command Module pilot on Apollo […]
Russell L. Schweickart
Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 9 mission. Born on October 25, 1935, in Neptune, New Jersey, Schweickart graduated from Manasquan High School in Belmar, New Jersey. He received a Bachelor […]
Andreas A. F. Schumacher
Founded the Danish Rocket Corps, the first rocket unit on European Continent. Andreas Anton Frederick Schumacher was an early Danish rocket pioneer who developed a complete rocket system. Born on […]
Bernard A. Schriever
Bernard Schriever was born in Bremen, Germany on September 14, 1910. His father, a German merchant marine sailor, was interned in New York in 1916 during World War I, so […]
Harrison H. Schmitt
Apollo 17 astronaut and the only scientist to walk on the Moon. The Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 17, the final manned lunar landing mission, Harrison H. Schmitt, a geologist, […]
Walter M. Schirra Jr.
Commanded Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo flight; only man to fly Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft. Walter Schirra, Jr. was one of the original seven U.S. astronauts and the […]
Eugen Sänger
Visionary physicist in the field of rocket propulsion. Eugen Sänger was born on September 22, 1905, in Prebnitz, Bohemia (then part of Austria-Hungary, now under Prisecnice Lake in the Czech […]
Svetlana Y. Savitskaya
Svetlana Savitskaya was born in Moscow on August 8, 1948. The daughter of Yeveniy Savitsky, the Deputy Commander of the Soviet Air Defenses and twice a Hero of the Soviet […]
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai
Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was born in Ahmedabad, India on August 12, 1919, the son of wealthy parents. His early education was in the family school directed by his mother. He […]
Carl Sagan
Carl E. Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 9, 1934. A graduate of Rahway High School in New Jersey in 1951, he enrolled in the University of […]