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 WindWind Voyager EO-1EO-1 StereoStereo ERBSERBS ACRIMSAT RHESSI TOMSTOMS TRMMTRMM Geotail SOHOSOHO AquaAqua ICESat
TIMEDTIMED SAMPEX Landsat 7 TRACE THEMIS TOPEX CALIPSO
TerraTerra ACEACE GRACE
SORCE Cluster POESPOES SDOSDO IMAGEIMAGE AIMAIM AuraAura FASTFAST GOESGOES PolarPolar GPMGPM
MMSMMS Solar-B
IBEXIBEX NPPNPP Aquarius CloudSat TDRSS LDCMLDCM Osiris-Rex (Sample Return) RBSPRBSP WMAPWMAP TWINS Cassini (Instrument)
NuSTAR JWSTJWST HSTHST GALEX New Horizons WISEWISE
Messenger Spitzer SWASSWAS Astro-H
RXTERXTE Galileo IUEIUE JunoJuno MAVEN Integral
Pioneer EUVEEUVE
FUSEFUSE COBECOBE Mars Science SwiftSwift Laboratory FermiFermi Compton GRO LADEELADEE LROLRO 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
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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
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* 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)