NASA chartered the Goddard Space Flight Center on May 1, 1959, at the dawn of the space age. View video and images looking back on the center's five decades at Goddard's 50th anniversary Web site.
More powerful computers needed to process the sophisticated computer models used in climate forecasts are now being developed at Goddard.
More powerful computers needed to process the sophisticated computer models used in climate forecasts are now being developed at Goddard.
NASA has released a video of Hurricane Bill today from the GOES-14 satellite. The video was put together from a series of still frames taken by the satellite using both infrared and visible imagery and provides different views of Hurricane Bill on August 20.
On August 17, 2009, at 1:31 p.m. EST, the latest NASA/NOAA geostationary weather satellite, called GOES-14, returned its first full-disk thermal infrared (IR) image, showing radiation with a wavelength of 10.7 micrometers emanating from Earth.
NASA Television has been honored with a Primetime Emmy Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.