Editing Richard A. Searfoss (section)

==Honors and awards==
*Eagle Scout
*Awarded the Harmon, Fairchild, Price and Tober Awards (top overall, academic, engineering, and aeronautical engineering graduate), United States Air Force Academy Class of 1978.<ref name=nasabio>{{NASA}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/searfoss_richard.pdf |title=RICHARD A. SEARFOSS (COLONEL, USAF, RET.), NASA ASTRONAUT (DECEASED) |publisher=NASA|date=October 2018 |access-date=May 20, 2021}}</ref>
*Air Force Aero Propulsion Laboratory Excellence in Turbine Engine Design award.<ref name=nasabio/>
*USAF Squadron Officer's School Commandant's Trophy as top graduate.<ref name=nasabio/>
*Distinguished graduate, USAF [[United States Air Force Fighter Weapons School|Fighter Weapons School]].<ref name=nasabio/>
*Named the [[Tactical Air Command]] [[F-111]] Instructor Pilot of the Year, 1985.<ref name=nasabio/>
*Selected for Outstanding Young Men of America, 1987.<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[Air Force Commendation Medal]]<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[Meritorious Service Medal (United States)|Meritorious Service Medal]]<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[Defense Meritorious Service Medal]]<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[Defense Superior Service Medal]]<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[NASA Space Flight Medal]] (3)<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[NASA Exceptional Service Medal]]<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal]]<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[Distinguished Flying Cross (U.S.)|Distinguished Flying Cross]]<ref name=nasabio/>
*[[Orbit Award]]
* Asteroid [[13157 Searfoss]], discovered by the [[Spacewatch]] survey in 1995, was named in his honor.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official {{MoMP|13157|naming citation}} was published by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on 1 May 2003 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 48394}}).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />