- Named to the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 2023
- Elected to Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2023
- Named a Member of the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, 2022
- Received MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Award), 2022
- Named to the Explorers Club 50, 2022
- Neo4j Graphie Award for ASTRIAGraph, 2021
- Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Space Project, 2021
- OpEd Public Voices Fellowship, 2020
- "Tex" Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, Oden Institute, 2019
- Elected Member of the International Institute of Space Law, 2019
- Selected as TED Fellow, 2019
- Elected to AIAA Fellow, 2019
