Robert Godwin and his books have been seen on the BBC, CNN, CBS, Discovery Channel, History Channel, CBC, Fox, and countless radio stations and podcasts. He is a lifetime member of the both the National Space Society and the Space Frontier Foundation and a member of the International Astronautical Federation and American Astronautical Society History Committees. In 2007 the International Astronomical Union's Committee for Small Body Nomenclature approved the naming of a main belt asteroid after Robert. "4252 Godwin" is an absolute magnitude 12.7 minor planet discovered in 1985 by H. Debehogne at the European Southern Observatory.