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Robenschain GSFC July 2012 Goddard Space Flight Center NASA Goddard Space Flight Center • NASA’s first Space Flight Center (established 1959) • We TRANSFORM Human Understanding of Earth and Space • Largest Collection of Scientists & Engineers in the U.S. • Nearly 300 successful missions including the World’s First Weather Satellite and the Hubble Space Telescope • 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics [Big Bang/Cosmic Background] • Hubble Supported 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics • WMAP Team Awarded 2012 Gruber Prize for Cosmology 2 Our Facilities • GSFC Greenbelt, Maryland • GSFC Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia • IV&V Facility, West Virginia • Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York Wallops Flight Facility • Ground Stations at White Sands Complex, New Mexico White Sands Complex Greenbelt Goddard Institute for Independent Verification and Space Studies Validation Facility 3 Our Lines of Business Cross Cutting Earth Science Technology and Capabilities Suborbital Platforms Astrophysics Planetary & Lunar Human Exploration Science & Operations Communications && Navigation GSFC’s Contributions to a Diverse Mission Portfolio QuikSCAT dinW dinW Voyager O-E1 O-E1 teoSer teoSer SBRE SBRE ACRIMSAT RHESSI TSOM TSOM TMMR TMMR Geotail OOHS OOHS aquA aquA ICESat DETMI DETMI SAMPEX Landsat 7 TRACE THEMIS TOPEX CALIPSO Tarer Tarer ECA ECA GRACE SORCE Cluster SOEP SOEP ODS ODS GEAMI GEAMI MIA MIA aruA aruA TSFA TSFA SGOE SGOE oPlar oPlar MGP MGP SMM SMM Solar-B XEBI XEBI PPN PPN Aquarius CloudSat TDRSS LMCD LMCD Osiris-Rex (Sample Return) PSBR PSBR PAMW PAMW TWINS Cassini (Instrument) NuSTAR TJSW TJSW TSH TSH GALEX New Horizons ESIW ESIW Messenger Spitzer SAWS SAWS Astro-H TXRE TXRE Galileo EUI EUI onJu onJu MAVEN Integral Pioneer EVUE EVUE FESU FESU OECB OECB Mars Science wifSt wifSt Laboratory iFmer iFmer Compton GRO EEDLA EEDLA LOR LOR NASA GSFC Leadership Team Chris Scolese Directo r Kelly Farrell, Chief of Staff Rick Obenschain, Christyl Johnson, Colleen Hartman, Nancy Abell , Deputy Director Deputy Director Deputy Director for Associate Director for Technology and Research Science, Operations and Investments Program Performance * * Julie Baker, Ray Rubilotta, Judy Bruner, George Morrow, Dennis Andrucyk, Nick White, Adrian Gardner, Ron Brade, Bill Wrobel, Chief Financial (Acting) Director, Director, Director, Director, Director, Director, Director, Officer Director, Office of Flight Projects Applied Engineering Sciences and Information Office of Suborbital and Management Systems Safety Directorate and Technology Exploration Technology and Human Capital Special Orbital Operations and Mission Directorate Directorate Communications Management Projects Directorate Assurance Directorate and WFF * * * * Reports directly to NASA Phillina Tookes Dan Krieger, Veronica Hill, Mark Hess, Laura Giza, Bob Gabrys, Greg Blaney, Tom Paprocki, (Acting) Special Assistant Chief, Chief, (Acting) Director, Director, Director, Headquarters Government and for Diversity Equal Opportunity Office of Chief Counsel Office of Independent Office of Community Relations Programs Office Communications Education Verification and Procurement Manager Programs Validation Facility WV Our People Technicians/Other 6% Clerical 5% Professional/ Administrative Scientists & 28% Engineers 61% GSFC Workforce Total Civil Servants: 3,400 Total Contractors : 6,400 Total Workforce: 9,800 7 7 Recent Accomplishments Robotic Refueling Sample Analysis at Mars Mission on STS-135 Instrument on MSL Suomi NPP – Revisiting the Blue Marble Operation Icebridge NuSTAR Optics Upcoming Milestones TDRS K Launch MSL Landing December 2012 HS3 Summer RBSP Launch (SAM instrument) 2012 August 2012 August 2012 Antares test Launch from Wallops 2012 MAVEN Launch MMS Launch November 2013 October 2014 LDCM Launch Numerous February 2013 Suborbital Missions LADEE Launch GPM Launch Summer 2013 February 2014 James Webb Space Telescope Mid-Inrared Instrument (MIRI) 10 Antares at Wallops NOAA Reimbursable Projects JPSS December 2016 GOES-R October DSCOVR 2015 June 2014 GSFC Technology: From Concept to Flight GSFC develops a diverse portfolio of technologies, tests them on platforms, and TERRA integrates them into missions. MSL Hubble JWST It is difficult to say what is impossible … for the dream of YESTERDAY is the hope of TODAY and the reality of TOMORROW. - Robert H. Goddard (1882 - 1945).
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