Goddard

American  

[god-erd] / ˈgɒd ərd /

noun

1. Robert Hutchings 1882–1945, U.S. physicist: pioneer in rocketry.

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Goddard British  

/ ˈɡɒdɑːd /

noun

1. Robert Hutchings. 1882–1945, US physicist. He made the first workable liquid-fuelled rocket

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Goddard Scientific  

/ gŏd′ərd /

1. American physicist who developed numerous rockets and rocket devices, including the first successful liquid-fueled rocket (1926), the first instrument-carrying rocket that could make observations in flight (1929), and the first rockets to exceed the speed of sound.

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Example Sentences

Then from 2014 to 2017, the ice began to vanish rapidly, losing more in 3 years than the Arctic had lost in 3 decades, says Claire Parkinson, a climatologist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

From Science Magazine

The employee cuts occur across all of NASA’s 10 centers, though the Goddard Space Flight Center in the Maryland suburbs of Washington and the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama take the biggest hits.

From Washington Times

She began her career as an electrical engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

From Washington Post

Before being selected as an astronaut in 2013, Ms. Koch worked as an electrical engineer at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

From New York Times

“It really was a confluence of everything falling into place at the right time,” says Bob Leamon, a solar physicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

From Scientific American