Award NASA Apollo Achievement Award

American Physical Society (Fellow, 1989)

American Philosophical Society (1995)

International Space Hall of Fame (2004)

Pulitzer Prize (1978)

John F. Kennedy Astronautics Award (1982)

Joseph Priestley Award (1976)

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Medal (Awarded by the Soviet Cosmonauts Federation, 1987)

Harold Masursky Award for Meritorious Service to Planetary Science (1991)

Explorers Club, Lowell Thomas Award (1980)

Oersted Medal (1990, American Association of Physics Teachers)

Public Welfare Medal (1994)

NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1977)

Emmy (Outstanding Individual Achievement, 1981)

Emmy (Outstanding Informational Series, 1981)

Humanist of the Year (1981)

Isaac Asimov Award (1994)

Peabody Award (1980)

Klumpke-Roberts Award (1974)

Golden Plate Award (1975)

Order of Saint James of the Sword (Grand-Cross, 1998)

Pantheon of Skeptics (2011)

Prix Galabert (1973)

Peter Lavan Award (1984)

New Priorities Award (1984)

Sidney Hillman Foundation Prize Award (1984)

SANE National Peace Award (1984)

Olive Branch Award (1984, 1986, 1989)

Leo Szilard Award for Physics in the Public Interest (1985)

Nahum Goldmann Medal (1986)

Bronze Star

Roe Medal

Jabotinsky Centennial Medal

Olmstead Award

Bernal Award