He was honored three times by the Air University at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, in its Gathering of Eagles program. He was selected for the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Award (1989) and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Air Force Association (2003), and the USAF Academy at Colorado Springs endowed a chair in space systems engineering in his honor in 2005. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1967 and an honorary fellow of the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics in 1989, and inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1980.
He received an honorary degree from Rider University in New Jersey in 1958, while still serving in the USAF, and an honorary doctorate from Utah State University in 1995.
Schriever garnered a number of honors during his career.
And defense management as well as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
