Saul Joseph Adelman (born 18 November 1944, in Atlantic City)[1] is an astronomer at The Citadel's Physics Department in Charleston, South Carolina.[2] Adelman received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Maryland in 1966 and his PhD in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1972.[3] He specializes in stellar astronomy. He is a co-author of Bound for the Stars: Travel in the Solar System and Beyond (1981,). In addition, he is the author/co-author of 502 scholarly articles in Astronomy.[4]