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Goddard Space Flight Center was established on the 1st of May 1959, making it NASA's first space flight center. It was originally called Beltsville Space Center before being renamed to honor rocket propulsion pioneer Robert H. Goddard.
Goddard Space Flight Center is located in Greenbelt, Maryland, approximately 6.5 miles northeast of Washington, D.C., in Prince George's County on Greenbelt Road. Baltimore, Annapolis, and NASA Headquarters are all within 30-45 minutes by highway.
The center is named after Robert H. Goddard, an American rocket propulsion pioneer. On the 1st of May 1959, NASA renamed the original Beltsville Space Center in his honor.
Goddard scientist John C. Mather shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission. COBE provided unique scientific data about the early universe.
Goddard manages operations for the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, OSIRIS-REx, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, and many others. Past missions include the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory and COBE.
Goddard has over 3,000 civil servant employees, approximately 60% of whom are engineers and scientists. Around 7,000 supporting contractors are on site each day, bringing the total workforce to roughly 10,000 civil servants and contractors.