Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), located in Greenbelt, Maryland, is a major NASA space research laboratory and was NASA's first space flight complex. As the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the United States, GSFC is dedicated to increasing knowledge of Earth, the solar system, and the universe through space-based observations. GSFC manages and has played key roles in hundreds of NASA missions, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. They also manage communications between mission control and orbiting astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has carried Goddard's name since 1959.
Dr. Robert H. Goddard launched the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts, on March 16, 1926.
Robert Goddard's March 16, 1926 rocket flight lasted 2.5 seconds.
Robert Goddard filed a patent application for a high-altitude liquid-fueled rocket using gasoline as fuel and liquid nitrous oxide as the oxidant on May 15, 1914.
Robert Goddard was the first person to fly a liquid-fueled rocket.
Robert Goddard filed a patent application for the multistage rocket on October 1, 1913.
Robert Goddard launched a liquid-fueled rocket on March 16, 1926, that reached about 41 feet (12.5 meters) in altitude.
Robert Goddard's March 16, 1926 rocket landed 184 feet (56 meters) from the launch site.
Robert Goddard earned 214 patents, some awarded posthumously.
Robert Goddard was the first person to build a multistage launch vehicle.
The U.S. government paid $1 million in 1960 to Robert Goddard's widow and the Guggenheim Foundation as a settlement for infringement on Goddard's patents.
Robert Goddard received funding from the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation for experiments conducted in New Mexico in his later years.
Robert Goddard did research work at Princeton University before returning to Worcester in 1914 to join the faculty at Clark University.
Robert Goddard was the first person to incorporate gyroscopes for stability in rocket flight.
Robert Goddard received a grant of $5,000 over five years from the Smithsonian Institution in January 1917 to fund his research.
Robert Goddard was the first person to add a nozzle to combustion chambers to increase rocket thrust.
The Near Space Network is managed by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Dr. Rebecca Peters is Earth Action Lead at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and secured 123 letters of support for the STRIVE and EDGE Earth System Explorer mission proposals.
The Near Space Network is managed by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
The JPSS 4 satellite is managed through a partnership between NOAA and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.