Awards and Honors
- Distinguished Flying Cross for service in Korea
- Air Medal with cluster for service in Korea
- Two NASA Distinguished Service Medals
- NASA Exceptional Service Medal
- Air Force Command Pilot rating with astronaut qualifier
- Honorary Doctorate, Florida Institute of Technology
- Congressional Space Medal of Honor, 1978 (posthumous)
- Honorary Mayor of Newport News, Virginia (posthumous)
- Enshrined at the "Wall of Honor" at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport
- In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Grissom was ranked as the #9 (tied with astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Alan Shepard) most popular space hero.
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“Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)