Official website (https://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
Goddard Space Flight Center
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NASA space research laboratory established in 1959 as NASA's first space flight center
OverviewAI-generated
The Goddard Space Flight Center, abbreviated as GSFC, is an active facility and funder located in Greenbelt, United States. Established on May 1, 1959, the center operates under the postal code 20771. It maintains contact through the phone number +1-301-286-2000 and the fax number +1-301-286-1707.
The organization’s official web presence includes the domains gsfc.nasa.gov, nasa.gov/goddard, and nasa.gov/centers/goddard. A frequently asked questions page is also available on the nasa.gov domain. The center has 1,650,000 social media followers.
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Key facts
- Formed
- May 1, 1959 ; 67 years ago ( 1959-05-01 )
- Preceding agency
- Beltsville Space Center
- Jurisdiction
- Federal government of the United States
- Employees
- 10,000 civil service and contractors
- Agency executive
- Jamie Dunn, director
- Parent agency
- NASA
- Child agencies
- Wallops Flight Facility Goddard Institute for Space Studies Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility
- Website
- nasa .gov /goddard /
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Facility, Funder
- Founded
- 1959
- Location
- Greenbelt, United States
- Also known as
- GSFC
- Status
- Active
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Official website
Goddard Space Flight Center - NASA
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 for NASA.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- space center
- Part of
- Eastern Range
- Named after
- Robert H. Goddard
- Field of work
- exploration
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Prince George's County
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Founded by
- United States Congress
- Headquarters
- Greenbelt
- Parent organization
- NASA
- Operator
- NASA
- Official website
- nasa.gov/goddard
- Image
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Aerial view 2010 facing south.jpg
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- Commons category
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- topic's main category
- Category:Goddard Space Flight Center
- inception
- 1959-05-01
- item operated
- Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
- postal code
- 20771
- member of
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- short name
- GSFC
- social media followers
- 1650000
- street address
- 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- phone number
- +1-301-286-2000
- fax number
- +1-301-286-1707
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Encyclopedic overview
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. Partially within the unincorporated community of Goddard, GSFC has a Greenbelt mailing address.
GSFC is the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the United States dedicated to increasing knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System, and the universe via observations from space. GSFC is a major US laboratory for developing and operating uncrewed scientific spacecraft. GSFC conducts scientific investigation, development, manufacturing and operation of space systems, and development of related technologies. Goddard scientists can develop and support a mission, and Goddard engineers and technicians can design and build the spacecraft for that mission. Goddard scientist John C. Mather shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on COBE.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Goddard Space Flight Center” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.