This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10, 000 year period, from 4000 BC to 6000 AD ( eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA / GSFC. DEPP ).

The Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ) is a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center.

GSFC employs approximately 10, 000 civil servants and contractors, and is located approximately northeast of Washington, D. C. in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.

GSFC, one of ten major NASA field centers, is named in recognition of Dr. Robert H. Goddard ( 1882 – 1945 ), the pioneer of modern rocket propulsion in the United States.

GSFC is the largest combined organization of scientists and engineers in the United States dedicated to increasing knowledge of the Earth, the Solar System, and the Universe via observations from space.

GSFC is a major U. S. laboratory for developing and operating unmanned scientific spacecraft.

The department is regularly funded by DBT, DST-FIST, GSFC Science Foundation for development of laboratories and purchase of new equipments.

This joint Japanese and American project is supported by the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics ( LHEA ) at NASA's GSFC and the KEK.

The HOPE Scholarship Program ( Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally ) created in 1993 under the supervision of Georgia Governor Zell Miller, is a merit-based higher education scholarship that is funded entirely by revenue from the Georgia Lottery and is administered by the Georgia Student Finance Commission ( GSFC ).

This is a collaborative project that consists of scientists from the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems ( CSISS ) of George Mason University, NASA GSFC, and UMBC.

GSFC also operates two spaceflight tracking and data acquisition networks ( the Space Network and the Near Earth Network ), develops and maintains advanced space and Earth science data information systems, and develops satellite systems for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ( NOAA ).

Flight operations activities for HST are done at NASA's GSFC in Greenbelt, Maryland.

GSFC manages operations for many NASA and international missions including the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ), the Explorer program, the Discovery Program, the Earth Observing System ( EOS ), INTEGRAL, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory ( SOHO ), the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE ) and Swift.

Its purpose was " to become a center of excellence in software assurance, dedicated to making measurable improvement in both the quality and reliability of software developed for NASA at GSFC ".

* Orlando Figueroa-formerly the Director of the Applied Engineering & Technology Directorate at the NASA GSFC ( as the " Director of Engineering " he manages the full scope of engineering activities at Goddard ), previously the NASA Mars Czar Director for Mars Exploration and the Director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science at NASA Headquarters

The Goddard Space Flight Center's ( GSFC ) Spartan-207 satellite was used to deploy and test the Inflatable Antenna Experiment ( IAE ) which laid the groundwork for future technology development in inflatable space structures.

In 2004 Richards returned to NASA GSFC as the Observatory Manager for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite ( GOES-R Series ).

Cray Y-MP Model D at NASA Center for Computational Sciences, GSFC

Near-global ozone for 6 September 2004 from NASA / GSFC

Image: Toms-2004-09-06-FULLDAY GLOB. PNG | Near-global ozone for 6 September 2004 from NASA / GSFC.

The NASA Shared Services Center ( NSSC ) currently awards all new grants for NASA HQ, GSFC, NMO, Stennis and Dyrden.

In 1995, budget concerns at NASA almost led to the termination of the mission, but instead the operations responsibilities were redivided, with ESA taking control for 16 hours a day, and GSFC for the remaining 8 only.

The ESA 16 hours was used for science operations, while the GSFC 8 hours was used only for maintenance.

Anshuman Gaekwad worked for GSFC ( Vadodara ) after retiring from Cricket and got took early retirement in 2000.

Five tiger teams were set up to find and correct the problem, one at each NASA center, from CalTech JPL in the west to Goddard SFC ( GSFC ) in the east.

However, in the early years of the mission, long before the advent of the World Wide Web and fast global data transmission links, access to the archive required a visit in person to one of two Regional Data Analysis Facilities ( RDAFs ), one at the University of Colorado and the other at GSFC.

GSFC operates three facilities that are not located at the Greenbelt site.

The Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer ( IRIS ) team was led by Dr. Rudolf A. Hanel from NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center ( GSFC ).

Past missions managed by GSFC include the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, SMM, COBE, IUE, and ROSAT.

Typically, unmanned earth observation missions and observatories in Earth orbit are managed by GSFC, while unmanned planetary missions are managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL ) in Pasadena, California.

( Eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak, NASA / GSFC.

After much analysis by a team at the GSFC, it was determined that the dump failure was due to noise on the communications link between the spacecraft and the ground.

Once in orbit, a crewmember activated NaSBE and then the experiment was controlled by the GSFC Payload Operations Control Center ( POCC ).

The instrument was built by the EUD ( formerly ' LHEA ') at GSFC.

Possible glow of Population III stars imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / A. Kashlinsky ( Goddard Space Flight Center | GSFC )

Satellite image created by the MODIS Rapid Response System, NASA / GSFC

It was then renamed the Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ), after Dr. Robert H. Goddard.

Transferred to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ) in 1987.

Management of the RLEP program was assigned to Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ) in February, 2004.

Management of LRO was assigned to Goddard Space Flight Center ( GSFC ) in 2004.

Among his assignments at Ford, he headed the development of the Hubble Space Telescope control center at GSFC.

* NASA GSFC 431-REF-000370 Flight Assurance Procedure: Performing a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center ( 10 Aug 1996 ).

MasPar at NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center | GSFC