Goddard is a both a

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and a

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People

* Goddard (given name) *

Goddard (surname) Goddard is a surname of Norman origin, found in England and France. It is derived from the personal name Golhard. Recorded variants include Godard and Godart in England; Goudard and Godar in France; Gotthard, Godehard and Goddert in Germany; and ...

Goddard is a popular surname

Places in the United States

Goddard, Kansas Goddard is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States, and a western suburb of Wichita. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 5,084. History In 1883, Ezekiel Wilder purchased farmland on the planned railway of the A ...

* Goddard, Kentucky *

Goddard, Maryland Goddard is an unincorporated community and former census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. It was named after the physicist Robert H. Goddard. The population was 5,554 in the 2000 census. The area was no lo ...

Goddard College Goddard College was a Private college, private college with three locations in the United States: Plainfield, Vermont; Port Townsend, Washington; and Seattle. The college offered undergraduate and graduate degree programs. With predecessor ins ...

, a low-residency college with campuses in Vermont and Washington * Goddard Memorial State Park, Warwick, Rhode Island * Homer, Indiana, also known as Goddard *

Maurice K. Goddard State Park Maurice K. Goddard State Park is a List of Pennsylvania state parks, Pennsylvania state park in Deer Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, Deer Creek, Mill Creek Township, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, Mill Creek, New Vernon Township, Penn ...

, New Vernon Township, Pennsylvania

Named after
Robert H. Goddard Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully lau ...

Goddard (crater) Goddard is a lunar impact crater that is located along the eastern limb of the Moon, and so is visible from the edge from Earth. It is best viewed during favorable librations when the orientation of the Moon brings it further into sight. The crat ...

, a lunar crater along the eastern limb of the Moon *

Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph The Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS or HRS) was an ultraviolet spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope during its original construction, and it was launched into space as part of that space telescope aboard the Space Shuttl ...

, a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope *

Goddard High School (New Mexico) Robert H. Goddard High School (''Goddard High School'', GHS) is a public senior high school in Roswell, New Mexico, United States. It is a part of the Roswell Independent School District. Established in 1965, the school is named after rocket pio ...

, Roswell, New Mexico *

Goddard Space Flight Center The Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a major NASA space research laboratory located approximately northeast of Washington, D.C., in Greenbelt, Maryland, United States. Established on May 1, 1959, as NASA's first space flight center, GSFC ...

, a major NASA space science laboratory in Greenbelt, Maryland **

Goddard Institute for Space Studies The Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is a laboratory in the Earth Sciences Division of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center affiliated with the Columbia University Earth Institute. The institute is located at Columbia University in Ne ...

, component laboratory of Goddard Space Flight Center *

Blue Origin Goddard Blue Origin Goddard is the name of the first development vehicle in Blue Origin's New Shepard program, which flew for the first time on November 13, 2006. Named after rocketry pioneer Robert H. Goddard, the vehicle is a subscale demonstrator and f ...

, a private spacecraft which first flew in November 2006 * Version 13 of the popular Linux distribution

Fedora A fedora () is a hat with a soft brim and indented crown.Kilgour, Ruth Edwards (1958). ''A Pageant of Hats Ancient and Modern''. R. M. McBride Company. It is typically creased lengthwise down the crown and "pinched" near the front on both sides ...

, nicknamed Goddard * Goddard, a robotic dog in the American animated television series ''

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius ''The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius'', or just ''The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron'' and often shortened as ''Jimmy Neutron'', is an American animated television series created by John A. Davis for Nickelodeon. Based on the 2001 film '' ...

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Goddard & Gibbs Goddard & Gibbs was a London-based Architectural glass, glassmaker and stained glass window manufacturer. The company was established by Walter Gibbs in 1868, although one firm which it subsequently acquired had been established earlier, in 1 ...

, stained glass manufacturers * Goddard School, a national network of franchised, early childhood education providers

People

Places in the United States

Named after Robert H. Goddard Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully lau ...

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Named after
Robert H. Goddard Robert Hutchings Goddard (October 5, 1882 – August 10, 1945) was an American engineer, professor, physicist, and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket, which was successfully lau ...