Editing Roger B. Chaffee (section)

== Awards and honors ==
[[File:Roger B. Chaffee statue.jpg|thumb|Statue of Chaffee in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]]]]
Chaffee was awarded the Navy [[Air Medal]] for his involvement in Heavy Photographic Squadron 62. He completed 82 classified missions "of paramount military importance to the security of the United States".<ref name="navyhistory" /> The Apollo{{nbsp}}1 crew was awarded the [[NASA Distinguished Service Medal]] posthumously in a 1969 presentation of the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] to the Apollo 11 crew.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/27531557/the_honolulu_advertiser/ |title=Astronauts Awed by the Acclaim |newspaper=The Honolulu Advertiser |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |page=1 |date=August 14, 1969 |last1=Smith |first1=Merriman |agency=UPI |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He was posthumously awarded a second Air Medal. He was inducted into the [[New Mexico Museum of Space History|International Space Hall of Fame]] in 1983 and into the [[United States Astronaut Hall of Fame|U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame]], on October 4, 1997.<ref name="newmexico" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29964158/el_paso_times/|title=Space Hall Inducts 14 Apollo Program Astronauts|last1=Sheppard|first1=David|newspaper=El Paso Times|location=El Paso, Texas|date=October 2, 1983|page=18|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://astronautscholarship.org/Astronauts/roger-b-chaffee/|title=Roger B. Chaffee|publisher=Astronaut Scholarship Foundation|access-date=June 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160803065049/http://astronautscholarship.org/Astronauts/roger-b-chaffee/|archive-date=August 3, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28283877/florida_today/|title=Ceremony to Honor Astronauts|newspaper=Florida Today|location=Cocoa, Florida|page=2B|date=October 2, 1997|last1=Meyer|first1=Marilyn|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Chaffee and White were awarded the [[Congressional Space Medal of Honor]] posthumously in 1997 (Grissom received the medal in 1978).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SpaceMed|title=Congressional Space Medal of Honor|work=C-SPAN Video Library |publisher=C-SPAN|date=December 17, 1997|access-date=June 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016195856/http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/SpaceMed|archive-date=October 16, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> He was later awarded the NASA Ambassador of Exploration Award for involvement in the U.S. space program in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|date=October 4, 2007|first=Yvette|last=Smith|url=http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/chaffee_ambassador_of_exploration.html|title=NASA Honors Roger Chaffee With Exploration Award|publisher=NASA|access-date=June 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021061541/http://www.nasa.gov/vision/space/features/chaffee_ambassador_of_exploration.html|archive-date=October 21, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>

On the television show ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' a fictional 24th century spacecraft was named after him, designed by [[Doug Drexler]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VC2wb9A7CD8C&q=chaffee Starship Spotter: Star Trek All Series by Adam 'mojo' Lebowitz, Robert Bonchune 2012]</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Okuda|first1=Michael|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cbYf2l7gczUC&q=Chaffee+shuttlecraft&pg=PT2337|title=The Star Trek Encyclopedia|last2=Okuda|first2=Denise|last3=Mirek|first3=Debbie|date=May 17, 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-4688-7|language=en}}</ref> They named it after Chaffee as a reminder about the dangers of space exploration.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Drexler|first1=Doug|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9YN0AwAAQBAJ&q=chaffee|title=Ships of the Line|last2=Clark|first2=Margaret|date=December 2, 2014|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4767-9267-5|pages=248|language=en}}</ref> ''Star Trek'' and NASA have a long history of collaborations going back to the late 1960s when the television show made its debut.<ref>{{Cite web|title=How Star Trek Helped NASA Dream Big|url=https://www.airspacemag.com/space/how-star-trek-helped-nasa-dream-big-180976753/|access-date=March 11, 2021|website=Air & Space Magazine|language=en}}</ref>

In 2018 a life-size bronze statue of Chaffee was unveiled outside the Grand Rapids Children's Museum in Chaffee's hometown. His wife, other family members, and astronaut [[Jack Lousma]] (a Grand Rapids native) were present for the event.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/grand-rapids-central/enshrined-astronaut-roger-b-chaffee-statue-unveiled-in-grand-rapids/69-556125583|title=Enshrined: Astronaut Roger B. Chaffee statue unveiled in Grand Rapids|publisher=WZZM-TV|last1=Fromson|first1=Noah|date=May 19, 2018|access-date=July 23, 2018}}</ref>