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Goddard Space Flight Center

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

Aerial view of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, in 2010.
An aerial photograph of the NASA Goddard Visitor Center, with white and brick rectangular buildings peeking out from among dense green trees behind a tall white rocket. The rocket stands in the center of a tan paved circle and is shaped like a pencil with a long, slim tower and a slight bulge at the top. Several smaller red, white, and yellow rockets are displayed on their sides around the paved circle, with another rocket standing in a smaller, white paved circle near the trees.
A rare view of the James Webb Space Telescope face-on, from the NASA Goddard cleanroom observation window.
The James Webb Space Telescope golden mirrors, made up up 18 golden hexagon shapes, in a cleanroom at Goddard.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, swears in Dr. Makenzie Lystrup as Director of Goddard Space Flight Center, as NASA Deputy...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, swears in Dr. Makenzie Lystrup as Director of Goddard Space Flight Center, as NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy looks on Thursday, April 6, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.
“I wanted to create a game because right now, a lot of what we [at NASA] make is geared toward...
Courtney Lee, a Black American woman, looks happy and confident, smiling at the camera while standing in front of a Roman Telescope model. She's wearing a long sleeve black turtle neck under a yellow plaid dress. Her short, curly hair frames her face.
A colorful photo of a metal sculpture, with three shiny silver globes hanging from gracefully balanced, curved supports. One large silver globe hangs on the right side of the center support, and the left side supports a smaller bar holding two smaller silver globes. The three represent the Sun, Earth, and Earth's Moon. The sculpture stands outdoors in a cement circle surrounded by printed placards with information about Earth and weather observations. A tall, old-looking rocket stands in the background. The sky is deep blue with white clouds, and grass and trees are visible further back.
NASA James Webb Space Telescope Operations Project Scientist Jane Rigby answers a question from a member of the media during...
A fair-skinned woman with short light brown hair, wearing a chunky galaxy scarf, and thin-framed glasses looks off to the side, speaking with her hands. Behind her is faded text that says "WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE"
Engineers at Ball Aerospace, one of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's industrial partners, have installed and aligned the element...
A large, dramatically lit piece of hardware is in the center of a workshop. It's silver and circular, like a giant CD, except that it has a ring of smaller circles (mostly filters) on it.
Donya Douglas-Bradshaw Lucy Project Manager Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
Donya Douglas-Bradshaw smiles are the camera, her desk behind her.
Kenneth Harris II works in the clean room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
Man in protective gear works on technology
"I hope to have more open conversations about mental health support with my fellow lab members as well as outside...
Assistant Research Scientist Rachel Tilling standing on an icy landscape.
Dr. Christian Braneon, a climate scientist at NASA GISS, presents data visualizations and the state of current satellite missions to...
Vice President Kamala Harris listens to Dr. Christian Braneon
NASA image acquired January 17, 2001 Though the above image may resemble a new age painting straight out of an...
John Mather, Project Scientist for JWST, faces the James Webb Space Telescope primary mirror, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD,...
Deputy director for technology and research investments at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Dr. Christyl Johnson, speaks during a panel...
NASA Goddard’s Deputy Center Director for Technology and Research Investments, Dr. Christyl Johnson, speaks during a panel discussion as part of a Women’s History Month program Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at Goddard's main campus in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Queen Elizabeth II greets employees on her walk from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center mission control to a reception in...
Queen Elizabeth II greets employees on her walk from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center mission control to a reception in the center’s main auditorium, Tuesday, May 8, 2007, in Greenbelt, Md.
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured many spectacular images of cosmic phenomena over its two decades of operations, but perhaps...
Cassiopeia A in X-ray and optical light.
"These kids [in my Scout troop] learn how to cook outside. They know how to start a fire. And if...
Instrument Systems Engineer Víctor M. Torres
NASA celebrates the life of Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek actor, trailblazer, and role model, who symbolized to so many what...
Nichelle Nichols (a.k.a. Lt. Uhura on Star Trek) seen on February 29, 2012. in the Building 8 Auditorium at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, speaks with Assistant Director of Science at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Michelle Thaller, right,...
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, speaks with Assistant Director of Science at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Michelle Thaller, right, during a broadcast releasing the first full-color images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
A glittering multitude of stars in the globular cluster Terzan 4 fills this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
reddish-gold fill the scene, bright blue-white stars dot the scene, bright white stars fill the center of the image
"I was labeled a troublemaker. Teachers wouldn't help me. My career counselor said I would do amazing work at a...
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lead Edward Gonzales
"[Studying black holes] is this combination of doing math, and also working out physical, spatial relationships — visualizing things orbiting...
Research Astrophysicist Jeremy David Schnittman
“I am a really average embroiderer, but I really love doing it. That’s one of my hobbies. In the last...
NASA Earth Social Media Lead Katy Mersamann
TIROS Control: TIROS Technical Control Center at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. Joe Parisi (left), Leo Cleary (right)...
TIROS technical control at NASA GSFC, 1964
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, was established on May 1, 1959, as NASA's first spaceflight center. A...
Goddard employees "60" group photo
Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble...
Layers of semi-opaque red colored gas and dust, bottom left, with three prominent pillars rise toward the top right. The left pillar is the largest and widest, the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades of brown and have red outlines.