Goddard Space Flight Center
GSFC operates three facilities that are not located at the Greenbelt site. These facilities are:
- The Wallops Flight Facility located in Wallops Island, Virginia was established in 1945, and is one of the oldest launch sites in the world. Wallops manages NASA's sounding rocket program, and supports approximately 35 missions each year.
- The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) located at Columbia University in New York City, where much of the center's theoretical research is conducted. Operated in close association with Columbia and other area universities, the institute provides support research in geophysics, astrophysics, astronomy and meteorology.
- The Independent Verification and Validation Facility (IV&V) in Fairmont, West Virginia was established in 1993 to improve the safety, reliability, and quality of software used in NASA missions.
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External links
- NASA Headquarters
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Dateline Goddard newsletter
- Goddard Employees Welfare Association (GEWA)
- Goddard Fact Sheets
- The Goddard Homer E. Newell Memorial Library
- Goddard Visitor Center
- Independent Verification and Validation Facility
- Dreams, Hopes, Realities: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, The First Forty Years by Lane E. Wallace, 1999 (full on-line book)
- Goddard Amateur Radio Club WA3NAN is known worldwide for their HF retransmissions of space flight missions.
- Goddard Space Flight Center is at coordinates Coordinates:
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