Goddard Space Flight Center

Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Goddard/Bill Hrybyk, Public domain

NASA space research laboratory established in 1959 as NASA's first space flight center

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. Named for American rocket propulsion pioneer Robert H. Goddard, it is one of ten major NASA field centers. Partially within the unincorporated community of Goddard, GSFC has a Greenbelt mailing address.

Also known as...GSFC, Space Flight Center, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and NASA Goddard