About the Goddard Space Flight Center

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    photograph of buildings at Goddard An aerial view of some of the buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Credit: NASA


    NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.






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