NASA appoints two new center directors

NASA appoints two new center directors

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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

GALLERY | S. Korean President Visits NASA Goddard

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Collectible Postage Stamps Unveiled at NASA Goddard

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

Protest Stalls $400 Million Goddard Support Contract

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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

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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

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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.

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NASA’s Third in Command Returning to Goddard

NASA’s Third in Command Returning to Goddard

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WASHINGTON — NASA Associate Administrator Chris Scolese, the agency’s third in command and top-ranking civil servant, is returning to Goddard Space Flight Center to serve as director of the Greenbelt, Md., lab.

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NASA’s Goddard Director Leaving for Ball Aerospace

NASA’s Goddard Director Leaving for Ball Aerospace

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WASHINGTON — Robert Strain is resigning as director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., to become chief operating officer of Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.

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John Townsend, 87, Ran NASA’s Goddard Center

John Townsend, 87, Ran NASA’s Goddard Center

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John W. Townsend Jr., an American rocket and satellite pioneer who ran NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center from 1987 to 1990, died from lung cancer Oct. 29 at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington. He was 87.

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SGT Wins $45M Contract To Support Goddard Projects

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Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT) Inc., of Greenbelt, Md., won a NASA contract worth up to $45 million over four years to provide geophysics, geodynamics and space geodesy support to the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center, also in Greenbelt.

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Profile: Frank Cepollina, Deputy Associate Director, Space Servicing Capabilities Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Profile: Frank Cepollina, Deputy Associate Director, Space Servicing Capabilities Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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At times, Frank Cepollina imagines what it would be like to retire from NASA, return to Northern California where he was raised, and relax. For now, however, Cepollina, one of the world’s leading experts on refueling and repairing satellites in orbit, has far too much work to do.

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NASA Goddard Issues Call for EV-2 Industry Partner

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NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center is looking for an industry partner for the Earth Venture-2 (EV-2) mission competition getting under way this summer.

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