Goddard Space Flight Center
The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center, GSFC employs about 10,000 civil servants and contractors. Named for American rocket propulsion pioneer Robert H. Goddard, it is one of ten major NASA field centers. GSFC is partially within the former Goddard census-designated place; it has a Greenbelt mailing address.
Aerial view of Goddard Space Flight Center (2010)
The Goddard network (STDN) tracked many early crewed and uncrewed spacecraft.
James Webb Space Telescope mirrors assembled, May 2016
A cake model of the Hubble Space Telescope on display in the visitor center
Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, and a suburb of Washington, D.C. At the 2020 census, the population was 24,921.
Roosevelt Center in March 2011. The city's commercial center typifies the Art Deco style used during the original construction of Greenbelt.
Winter view of Still Creek in Greenbelt Park
I-95/I-495 southbound in Greenbelt
Debut of a next generation WMATA 7000-series rail car at Greenbelt Metro Station
