13K views · 234 reactions | NASA Goddard is home to one of the largest concentrations of scientists and engineers in the world. After 60 years of exploration, we're celebrating curiosity, bold ideas and perseverance. ✨ | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center | Facebook

On this day in 1899, Robert Goddard first considered the concept of space flight, which his work would later help make a reality. On this particular fall afternoon at age 17, he was sent to prune a cherry tree in his backyard. While he worked, he found himself imagining, as he later wrote in his diary, "how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars, and how it would look on a small scale, if sent up from the meadow at my feet." It was at that m

107K views · 4.4K reactions | Here are a few of our top Instagram images from 2016. To see more great NASA Goddard images be sure to follow us on Instagram at www.instagram.com/nasagoddard and also on Twitter at https://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix. | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center | Facebook

A baby picture for the ages 🛰️ NASA’s retired COBE satellite gave us the first baby picture of the universe by capturing light released just 380,000 years after the big bang. COBE’s Differential Microwave Radiometer offers a unique and colorful look at the sky, including the oldest light in the universe. COBE has discovered clues as to how the universe’s first structures were formed, reflected in tiny differences in temperature across the cosmos seen here. | NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center