Honors

Awards

• Congressional Space Medal of Honor (1978)
• Langley Gold Medal (1964)
• Golden Plate Award for the American Academy of Achievement (1981)
• John J. Montgomery Award (1963)
• SETP Iven C. Kincheloe Award (1963)
• City of New York Gold Medal (1971)
• Cabot Award
• Collier Trophy
• 2 NASA Distinguished Service Medals
• NASA Exceptional Service Medal
• Navy Astronaut Wings
• Navy Distinguished Service Medal
• Navy Distinguished Flying Cross
• Honorary Master of Arts degree - Dartmouth College (1962)
• Honorary Doctorate of Science - Miami University (1971)
• Honorary Doctorate of Humanities - Franklin Pierce College (1972)

Eponyms

• USNS Alan Shepard - Navy Supply Ship (2005)
• McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center - Concord, New Hampshire
• I-565 is now called Admiral Alan B. Shepard Highway
• I-93 from Massachusetts to Hookset, New Hampshire
• Commander Shepard Boulevard - Hampton Virginia
• Alan B. Shepard Jr. Post Office Building - Derry, NH Post office
• Alan B. Shepard Convention Center/Alan B. Shepard Civic Center - City of Virginia Beach
• Alan Shepard Park - Cocoa Beach, Florida