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Goddard's 50th Anniversary

  • 50 Years of Goddard

    Goddard Marks 50th Anniversary

    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.

Recent News

  • An artist's concept of the heliosphere

    Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High

    Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA's ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high.

  • Rendering of NASA Goddard's new Exploration Sciences Building

    NASA Goddard's New Building Opens for Business

    NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. held a ribbon cutting ceremony on Monday, September 28 at 1 p.m. EDT for NASA employees to mark the opening of its newest building.

  • Artist’s rendition of 51 Ophiuchi’s inner and outer dust disks

    Twin Keck Telescopes Probe Dual Dust Disks

    Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved around another star.

  • Satellite data showing ice thinning in Antarctica

    NASA Ice Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning

    Researchers have used NASA's ICESat to compose the most comprehensive picture of changing glaciers along the coast of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets.

  • Goddard's Laser Ranging Facility aiming laser toward LRO

    NASA Goddard Shoots the Moon to Track LRO

    The laser ranging effort to track the LRO spacecraft produces distance measurements accurate to within about four inches over nearly 250,000 miles.

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