Awards and Honors
- Medal for Merit from the US President.
- Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, 1946.
- Elliott Cresson Medal, 1962
- Frederic Ives Medal, 1965.
- Joseph Fraunhofer Award, 1991.
- Recognition as a Pioneer of National Reconnaissance, 2000.
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Award; inducted into Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.
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