Special Honors
- Recipient of the Air Force Legion of Merit (1956)
- NASA Exceptional Service Medal (1972)
- NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1974)
- American Astronautical Society’s Melbourne W. Boynton Award for 1975 (1977)
- two NASA Space Flight Medals (1983, 1985)
- University of North Carolina Distinguished Alumni Award (1983)
- Aerospace Medical Association Randy Lovelace Award (1984)
- AIAA Jeffries Medical Research Award (1985)
- Association of Military Surgeons of the United States Kern Award (1986)
- NASA Exceptional Engineering Achievement Award (1988).
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