NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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.
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Perseverance Mars Rover
The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover searched for signs of ancient microbial life, which will advance NASA's quest to explore the past habitability of Mars.
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Visit Goddard
Explore exhibits of spacecraft and technology at the Goddard Visitor Center in Greenbelt, MD.
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Focus Areas and Capabilities
Goddard plays a pivotal role across all aspects of the agency’s missions, from development to de-orbit.
Earth Science
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Solar Science
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Planetary Studies
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Astrophysics
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Outer Space
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Mission Simulations
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Supporting All Aspects of NASA’s Missions
More than 50 Goddard spacecraft explore Earth and soar through the solar system, collecting observations to be parsed and studied by scientists around the world.
Goddard is the operational home of the venerable Hubble Space Telescope. 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. GPM, Landsat and a host of other satellites monitor Earth and our changing climate.
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Past Missions
Human space exploration helps to address fundamental questions about our place in the Universe and the history of our solar system.
NASA’s robotics technology has allowed us to send robotic orbiters, landers, and rovers ahead of us to study other planets and identify potential signs for life. On the International Space Station, NASA and their partners have used robotic technology extensively, to lorem and ipsum the dolor sit amets and more.
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Human space exploration helps to address fundamental questions about our place in the Universe and the history of our solar system.
NASA’s robotics technology has allowed us to send robotic orbiters, landers, and rovers ahead of us to study other planets and identify potential signs for life. On the International Space Station, NASA and their partners have used robotic technology extensively, to lorem and ipsum the dolor sit amets and more.
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Astronauts
Learn about those of the NASA corps who make “space sailing” their career profession.
History
Pioneering spaceflight and innovation
Named for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, the center was established May 1, 1959, as NASA's first space flight complex.
Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) is considered the father of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. It is in memory of this brilliant scientist that NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was established on May 1, 1959.
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Virtual Field Trips
Learn about living and working on a space station, building a satellite, and more from the comfort of your home or classroom.
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