NASA appoints two new center directors

by Jeff Foust — January 24, 2020

NASA has selected acting directors at two of its field centers to take those positions on a permanent basis.

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GALLERY | S. Korean President Visits NASA Goddard

by SpaceNews Staff — October 15, 2015

The president of South Korea visited NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Wednesday morning in an effort to build up space partnerships with the United States.

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Goddard Satellite Servicing Office Gets $150 Million in Senate Spending Bill

by Dan Leone — June 22, 2015

Senate appropriators want to give a small office at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a $20 million budget increase to help launch a robotic servicing mission to an aging U.S. satellite by 2019.

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Goddard Seeks a Host Satellite for Its Earth Venture Proposal

by Dan Leone and Peter B. de Selding — November 13, 2014

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is looking for a host satellite to carry a roughly 100-kilogram science instrument to a geostationary orbit in 2022, according to notice published online Nov. 10.

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Goddard Director: Shutdown May Force ‘Conflicts’ at Center Test Facilities

by Dan Leone — October 23, 2013

The recent government shutdown will force center management to rearrange testing schedules for a slew of projects to avoid traffic jams at Goddard’s various testing facilities.

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With Goddard Chamber Booked for Webb, MMS Heads to Navy Lab for Vacuum Tests

by Dan Leone — September 23, 2013

The move underscores NASA’s desire to keep the $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope on track for its long-awaited launch.

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Goddard Moving Early on Next Discovery Competition, Targets Venus or Small Bodies

by Dan Leone — September 11, 2013

Goddard submitted a call for subsystems to be used on a mission to Venus, an asteroid or a comet.

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Collectible Postage Stamps Unveiled at NASA Goddard

by SpaceNews Editor — October 16, 2012

The U.S. Postal Service unveiled during an Oct. 1 ceremony at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., a new series of postage stamps featuring Earth observation imagery capture by satellites and aircraft.

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NASA Hires Architects for Goddard Renovation Work

by SpaceNews Staff — September 27, 2012

Four small Maryland firms stand to split $15 million NASA plans to spend during the next five years on architecture and engineering services at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops, Va., and several smaller Goddard facilities, such as remote tracking stations.

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Profile | Christopher Scolese, Director, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

by Dan Leone — September 26, 2012

Chris Scolese, a highly decorated engineer who became NASA’s top-ranking civil servant in 2007, relinquished that title in March and returned to the Goddard Space Flight Center to deal with what he calls “problems you can actually solve.”

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NASA Goddard Names New Deputy Director for Science

by SpaceNews Staff — July 16, 2012

Colleen Hartman, a veteran NASA space science manager, is moving from NASA headquarters in Washington to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in nearby Greenbelt, Md., where she will serve as deputy director for science, operations and program performance, NASA announced July 10.

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Protest Stalls $400 Million Goddard Support Contract

by SpaceNews Staff — July 10, 2012

WASHINGTON — Orbital Sciences Corp. is protesting a $400 million NASA engineering services contract awarded to SGT Inc. in May to support the Joint Polar Satellite System and other projects at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

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First JWST Instrument Reaches NASA Goddard

by SpaceNews Staff — June 18, 2012

NASA took delivery late last month of the first of four science instruments slated to fly aboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) when it launches in 2018.

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Las Vegas Firm Wins $435M Goddard Support Contract

by SpaceNews Staff — June 4, 2012

NASA awarded Las Vegas-based TRAX International a $435 million contract to provide the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., with logistics and technical information services for the next five years, the U.S. space agency announced May 30.