Goddard
Goddard may refer to:
People
- Goddard (surname)
- Goddard Lieberson (1911–1977), former president of Columbia Records
Places
- Goddard, Alaska
- Goddard, Kansas
- Goddard, Kentucky
- Goddard, Maryland
- Goddard Bungalow Court Historic District, Des Moines, Iowa
- Goddard College, a private college in Plainfield, Vermont
- Goddard Memorial State Park, Warwick, Rhode Island
- Maurice K. Goddard State Park, New Vernon Township, Pennsylvania
- The Goddard School Springfield, MO
- Homer, Indiana, also known as Goddard
Named for Robert H. Goddard
The following got their names due to Robert H. Goddard's pioneering role in rocketry:
- Goddard (crater), a lunar crater that is located along the eastern limb of the Moon
- Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph, a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope
- Goddard High School (New Mexico), a public high school in Roswell, New Mexico
- Goddard Space Flight Center, a major NASA space science laboratory located in Greenbelt, Maryland
- Goddard Institute for Space Studies, component laboratory of Goddard Space Flight Center
- Blue Origin Goddard, a private spacecraft which first flew in November 2006
- Version 13 of the popular Linux distribution Fedora (operating system), nicknamed Goddard
Other uses
- Goddard, a drinking vessel of stone, akin to the German beer stein
- Goddard, a robot dog in the American animated television series, The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
- Goddard–Thorn theorem, a mathematical theorem about certain vector spaces
- Maine penny, also known as the "Goddard coin"
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References
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