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"

See also

• Godard (disambiguation)

References