The Goddard Space Flight Center and the New Frontier

The Goddard Space Flight Center is home to some of the most innovative scientific breakthroughs in the world. The US center of unmanned space flight, the center manages and originates some of the most well-known space programs of today.

The Hubble Space Telescope is managed from here as are many other important research projects. Satellites are constructed at this facility to meet the needs of scientific programs that are originated at the Goddard Space Flight Center, making the facility a sort of self-sustaining enterprise as far as research and design are concerned.

Understanding our planet, our solar system and our entire universe are among the goals of this center of research and, ambitious as those goals may be, the center has made great strides within them time and time again.

The Goddard Space Flight Center has a visitor center that is open year round and that is totally free to the public. There are many self-guided tours, lectures and presentations about the field of space research and about space itself. Large groups can also be accommodated but contact the center first.