Goddard is a both a
given name
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and a
surname
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...
, which may refer to:
People
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Goddard (given name)
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Goddard (surname)
Goddard is a popular surname
Places in the United States
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Goddard, Kansas
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Goddard, Kentucky
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Goddard, Maryland
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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
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Goddard Memorial State Park, Warwick, Rhode Island
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Homer, Indiana, also known as Goddard
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Maurice K. Goddard State Park, New Vernon Township, Pennsylvania
Named after Robert H. Goddard
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Goddard (crater), a lunar crater along the eastern limb of the Moon
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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
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Goddard High School (New Mexico), Roswell, New Mexico
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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
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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
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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''
Other uses
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Goddard & Gibbs, stained glass manufacturers
* Goddard School, a national network of franchised, early childhood education providers
See also
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Goddard–Thorn theorem, a mathematical theorem about certain vector spaces
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Maine penny, also known as the "Goddard coin"
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Godard (disambiguation)
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