Major Awards and Recognitions
- Medal for Merit awarded by the President of the United States (1948)
- Naval Ordnance Development Award
- Air Force Exceptional Service Award (1960)
- IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Pioneer Award (1975)
- Kitty Hawk Award (1975)
- IEEE Founders Medal (1989)
- Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service (1997)
- John Fritz Medal (1998)
- Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs
- San Diego Aerospace Museum's International Aerospace Hall of Fame (2002)
- Navy Superior Public Service Award (1999)
- National Academy of Engineering Charles Stark Draper Prize (with Bradford Parkinson, 2003)
- National Inventors Hall of Fame (posthumously, 2004)
- In 2011, he was listed at #10 on the MIT150 list of the top 150 innovators and ideas from MIT
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