John Glenn - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

The NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio, is named after him. Also, Senator John Glenn Highway runs along a stretch of I-480 in Ohio across from the NASA Glenn Research Center. Colonel Glenn Highway, which runs by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Wright State University near Dayton, Ohio, John Glenn High School in his hometown of New Concord, Ohio, and Col. John Glenn Elementary in Seven Hills, Ohio, are named for him as well. High Schools in Westland and Bay City, Michigan; Walkerton, Indiana; San Angelo, Texas; Elwood, Long Island, New York; and Norwalk, California were also named after him.

The fireboat John H. Glenn Jr. was named for him. This fireboat is operated by the DCFD and protects the sections of the Potomac River and the Anacostia River that run through Washington, D.C.

In 1961, Glenn received an honorary LL.D from Muskingum University, the college he had attended before joining the military in World War II. This was followed by earning his bachelor of science degree from Muskingum in 1962.

In 2004, Glenn was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the Smithsonian Institution.

In 2009, Glenn received an honorary LL.D from Williams College. In 2010 Glenn received an honorary Doctorate of Public Service from Ohio Northern University.

Glenn has received the following medals and decorations:

• Naval Aviator Badge
• Naval Pilot Astronaut Badge
• Distinguished Flying Cross with two Gold Stars and two Oak Leaf Clusters
• Air Medal with three Silver Stars and two Oak Leaf Clusters
• Presidential Unit Citation (United States)
• Navy Unit Commendation
• American Campaign Medal
• Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one Bronze Star
• World War II Victory Medal (United States)
• China Service Medal
• Navy Occupation Service Medal
• National Defense Service Medal
• Korean Service Medal with two Bronze Stars
• United Nations Korea Medal
• Presidential Unit Citation (Korea)

Civilian

• Congressional Gold Medal
• Congressional Space Medal of Honor
• NASA Distinguished Service Medal
• Presidential Medal of Freedom
• The Woodrow Wilson Award
• Thomas D. White National Defense Award