Early Tracking and Communication Facilities at Goddard Space Flight Center
Early Tracking and Communication Facilities at Goddard Space Flight Center
Named
for American rocketry pioneer Dr. Robert H. Goddard, NASA's Goddard
Space Flight Center was established on May 1, 1959, as NASA's first
space flight complex.
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In the 1960s, when this image was taken, Goddard focused on the
development of tracking and communication facilities and capabilities
for both the scientific satellites and the manned space flight program.
Goddard became the hub of the massive, international tracking and
communications network that involved aircraft, supertankers converted
into mobile communications units, and a wide diversity of ground
stations.
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A duplicate mission control center was also built at Goddard
in case the computers at the main control room at the Johnson Space
Center in Houston, Texas failed for any reason.
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> About Dr. Robert H. Goddard
Image Credit: NASA
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