Goddard at a Glance: Facts about Goddard Space Flight Center.Robert H. Goddard, the Father of Modern Rocketry. (1882-1945) The American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor credited with creating and building the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket.Goddard was NASA’s first spaceflight center, established May 1959.Goddard has five main sites: Greenbelt campus, Maryland; Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia; the Independent Verification and Validation Facility, West Virginia; the White Sands Complex, New Mexico; and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, New York, with approximately 13 thousand civil servants and contractors.Goddard has developed more planetary instruments than any other organization, which reach every planet in the solar system.Goddard invests more than 80 percent of its funding in businesses, academia, and nonprofit organizations. Goddard has tracking and data networks involving over 20 countries.One Goddard: We are Stronger Together

Goddard at a Glance continued:Goddard has had over 16,000 launches and more than 300 missions.Goddard houses the largest ISO 7 cleanroom. At 1.3 million cubic feet, its volume is equivalent to 15 Olympic-sized swimming pools. In 25 years, the Hubble Space Telescope has acquired one million observations leading to over 11 thousand scientific papers.Goddard has more than 750 patents including “Robotics for Satellite Servicing,” patent #US 7513460 B2.The Solar Dynamics observatory has captured 100 million views of the Sun.The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken 6 billion measurements of the Moon’s topography.The first Earth photo was captured by the Vanguard II Satellite.The Earth Observing System has made ozone layer observations for over 30 years.Landsat has observed the Earth for more than 40 years, with Landsat 5 setting a Guinness World Record for the longest operating Earth-observation satellite.The first successful weather satellite was TIROS 1.Goddard has developed 100% of the U.S. weather satellites for NOAA, including the GOES satellite that captured images of Hurricane Gonzalo.”Nobel-prize winner: Dr. John Mather and the COBE team confirmed the Big Bang theory with extraordinary accuracy. Goddard has also contributed to three additional Nobel Prizes.

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