Awards and Honors
- Amherst College 1963 Porter Prize in Astronomy
- 1964 Second Walker Prize in Mathematics
- 1965 John Summer Runnells Scholarship Prize
- 1966 Stanley V. and Charles B. Travis Prize
- Woods Prize for Scholarship
- Elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1965 and Sigma Xi in 1966
- Woodrow Wilson Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1966–67
- National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, 1966–71
- National Academy of Sciences Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellowship, 1971–72
- Harvard University Sheldon International Fellowship, 1972–73
- NATO Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 1973–74
- NASA Space Flight Medals (5)
- NASA Exceptional Service Medals (2)
- NASA Distinguished Service Medals (2)
- V. M. Komarov and the Sergei P. Korolev Diplomas by the International Aeronautical Federation in 1991 and 1994
Inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2007
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