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Who Was Dr. Goddard?

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    Earth Impacts Linked to Human-Caused Climate Change

    Satellite image of Siberia Impacts from warming are evident in satellite images showing that lakes in Siberia disappearing as the permafrost thaws and lake water drains deeper into the ground. Credit: NASA Earth Observatory A new NASA-led study shows that human-caused climate change has impacted a wide range of Earth's natural systems, from permafrost thawing to plants blooming earlier across Europe to lakes declining in productivity in Africa.

    Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Science in New York and scientists at 10 other institutions have linked physical and biological impacts since 1970 with rises in temperatures during that period. The study, published May 15 in the journal Nature, concludes that human-caused warming is resulting in a broad range of impacts across the globe.

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    Maryland Lt. Governor Visits Goddard Space Flight Center

    Md. Lt. Gov. Brown at Goddard Maryland Lt. Governor Anthony Brown (second from left) receives presentation on Hubble tools and equipment from the Hubble program's Jill McGuire (left) and Mark Behnke (far right) of Alliant Techsystems. Goddard Acting Center Director Rick Obenschain is at rear center. Credit: NASA/Pat Izzo
    On May 12, 2008, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center welcomed Maryland Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown to its facility in Greenbelt, Md. Brown, himself a Prince George's County resident, toured the center, which employs more than 8,000 workers, along with Goddard's acting center director, Rick Obenschain.

    During his visit, Brown viewed hardware and tools that will be used for the upcoming space shuttle servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the nation's preeminent science programs managed by Goddard.

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    NASA's GLAST Gets Shades, Blankets for the Beach

    A worker looks over the star tracker sun shades just installed on the GLAST spacecraft. At the Astrotech payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a worker looks over the star tracker sun shades just installed on the GLAST spacecraft. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
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    NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, is receiving finishing touches at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, near the beaches of eastern central Florida for its launch. The spacecraft is set for launch aboard a Delta II rocket no earlier than June 3. The launch window runs from 11:45 a.m. to 1:40 p.m. EDT.

    Housed at the Astrotech Facility located near the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., GLAST is getting a lot of attention from engineers and scientists, from sun shades to thermal blankets, to final inspection.

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    Send Your Name to the Moon Aboard LRO!

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In-Depth Feature Series

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    Return to Hubble

    A monthly column about NASA's return to the Hubble Space Telescope, and Goddard's roles in making Servicing Mission 4 a reality.

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    Destination: Moon

    Learn all about NASA's journey back to the moon by reading this four-part series, authored by Goddard's Dr. Paul Lowman.