Honours
- IEEE Edison Medal in 1972, For contributions to telecommunications, rocket guidance and spacecraft control, and for inspiring leadership in unmanned exploration of the solar system.
- National Medal of Science in 1975 awarded by President Gerald Ford
- Honorary (because of his American citizenship) Knight Commander in the Order of the British Empire in 1975
- Japan Prize in 1994
- Magellanic Premium in 1966.
- In 1964 he presented the Bernard Price Memorial Lecture in South Africa.
- 2 June 2003 he became an honorary member of the Order of New Zealand.
- 1965 The Institution of Professional Engineers New Zealand (IPENZ) Honorary Fellowship
- Mr. Pickering is one of the few non-politicians to have appeared on the cover of Time twice.
- Two roads in New Zealand have been named after Pickering. Sir William Pickering Drive in the Canterbury Technology Park in Christchurch, and William Pickering Drive in Auckland.
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Pickering and Kennedy with a model of the Mariner spacecraft
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Pickering, Van Allen & Von Braun at NASA news conference.
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Observatory Mural showing Sir William Pickering.
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Mount Pickering Summit, Kepler Mountains Fiordland National Park New Zealand.
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