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  • photo of a woman taken during June 2011 visit to Goddard of Indiana School for the Blind and Indian Creek Public High School

    Goddard Hosts Indiana Students and Teachers

    Teachers and students from the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and Indian Creek High School visited Goddard last week.

  • President Kennedy speaks to Congress on May 25, 1961.

    America's Next Moonshot Moment

    Our journey into the future has its foundations 50 years in the past, when President John F. Kennedy issued a challenge that transformed the tentative early steps of human spaceflight into a giant leap for mankind.

  • Paul G. Dembling, Co-Author of the Space Act

    Paul Dembling, Co-Author of Space Act, Dies

    As general counsel to NASA's precursor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Dembling helped shape the agency's legislative charter, the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958.

  • crowd shot from Explore

    Goddard Open-House Attracts More Than 15,000

    NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., hosted more than 15,000 visitors under gray but rain-free skies on May 14.

  • Photo of Dr. Bindschadler

    Secrets of Antarctica's Ice Sheets  →

    Dr. Robert Bindschadler has been studying the mysteries of the Arctic and Antarctic for the past 30 years.

  • Lee Scherer lands first plane at SLF

    Space center remembers its second director

    Lee Scherer led Kennedy through transitions, firsts and groundbreaking missions

  • Liftoff of the Mercury-Redstone 3

    NASA, Space Community Remember 'Freedom 7'

    A gathering at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station marks the 50-year anniversary of America's first human spaceflight.

  • Two GAS Cannisters mounted in the Shuttle Bay

    Shuttle Small Payloads Launched Careers of Many

    The shuttle bay's power buses allowed hundreds of experiments to make good use of missions that didn’t need all 50,000 pounds of payload capacity.

  • Alan Shepard on stamp

    Stamps Mark Shepard's 1961 Flight

    Alan Shepard's 1961 Mercury flight launched 50 years of NASA achievement that the U. S. Postal Service celebrated with a new stamp set.

  • Lightning towers go up at Pad B

    Launch Pad 39B Boasts Comprehensive Weather System

    A new weather system at Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39B is expected to produce increasingly detailed launch criteria

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