Jan 13, 2025 · Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center was established May 1, 1959, as NASA’s first space flight complex. Goddard and its several installations are critical in carrying out NASA’s missions …

Oct 1, 2024 · Welcome to your friendly neighborhood space flight center! The visitor center showcases Goddard’s innovative and exciting work in Earth science, astrophysics, heliophysics, planetary science, engineering, communications and technology development.

Oct 9, 2024 · Space for Me. Saturday, Oct. 26, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Explore the Goddard Visitor Center during a sensory-friendly hour before we open for the day. Sounds and lighting in our exhibit spaces will be limited during this time. We will …

Goddard studies the tenuous atmosphere of Mars with MAVEN and the Red Planet’s surface with instruments aboard the Curiosity rover. Goddard surveys the Moon with LRO and watches our Sun with the Solar Dynamics Observatory and Parker Solar Probe.

Nov 19, 2024 · Read about Goddard Space Flight Center's role in space science. Find articles, pictures, and videos of events from the early years of rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard in the 1920s, all the way through to the present-day work of the NASA facility that bears his name.

Jan 21, 2025 · Currently, the James Webb Space Telescope is the largest telescope orbiting in space with 18 mirror segments and totaling approximately 6,200 kg in mass. The telescope was assembled for the first time and tested at Goddard Space Flight Center.

Dec 4, 2023 · Goddard is home to the nation’s largest organization of scientists, engineers and technologists who build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study Earth, the Sun, our solar system and the universe.

Oct 21, 2024 · Get to know your friendly neighborhood space flight center and the people that make up the largest community of scientists, engineers, and technologists on planet.

Feb 19, 2015 · NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland, leads the world in scientific discovery and understanding. Goddard is the home of innovative Earth science, astrophysics, heliophysics and planetary science.

Jul 27, 2022 · When NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center was established in 1959 as NASA’s first spaceflight center, we began an era of spaceflight and innovation that has benefited humanity and enhanced daily life on Earth.