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Buzz Aldrin took a miniature sized biography of Goddard on his historic voyage to the Moon aboard Apollo 11. [101] Goddard received the Langley Gold Medal from the Smithsonian Institution in 1960, and the Congressional Gold Medal on September 16, 1959. [14] The Goddard Space Flight Center, a NASA facility in Greenbelt, Maryland, was established ...
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.
Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is NASA's first, and oldest, space center.It is named after Robert H. Goddard, the father of modern rocketry.Throughout its history, the center has managed, developed, and operated many notable missions, including the Cosmic Background Explorer, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS), the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ...
Portal:Spaceflight/Selected biography/1 . Robert Goddard. Robbert Hutchings Goddard (1882–1945) is considered to be one of the fathers of modern rocket propulsion. A physicist of great insight, Goddard also had a unique genius for invention. By 1926, Goddard had constructed and tested successfully the first rocket using liquid fuel.
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Barth was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2017 class of fellows, "for leadership in spacecraft reliability and electronic systems". [5] She is a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society. [4] The Goddard Space Flight Center gave her the Robert H. Goddard Award of Merit in 2014. [1]
Julie McEnery is an astrophysicist at the Goddard Space Flight Center where she is the senior project scientist for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Until 2020 she was the project scientist for the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. [1] [2]
This division of Goddard Space Flight Center has interests in various projects and missions. [12] [13] In addition to performing research based on NASA solar observatories in space, the division manages many heliophysics missions on behalf of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters. These include: