Goddard Space Flight Center
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The Goddard Space Flight Center is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately 6.5 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 19
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 scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope on display in the visitor center
Robert H. Goddard
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Robert Hutchings Goddard was an American physicist, inventor, and engineer credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully launched on March 16, 1926
Goddard Space Flight Center
…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. Partially within the unincorporated community of Goddard, GSFC has a Greenbelt mailing address. GSFC is the…
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Goddard at Clark University
Goddard loading a rocket in 1918
Robert Goddard, bundled against the cold weather of March 16, 1926, holds the launching frame of his most notable invention—the first liquid-fueled rocket.