This NASA center for climate research and Earth observation manages several missions, like the James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope.
was established in NASA's early days under the directorship of physicist Robert Jastrow, who had been doing theoretical work for the Naval Research Laboratory's Vanguard satellite program in the 1950s.
In the late 1960s, GISS moved a few blocks to the building it now occupies. This building later became famous because its ground floor includes Tom's Restaurant, the regular hangout of characters on the"Seinfeld" TV series. and planetary science. Under James Hansen, director from 1981 to 2013, and his successor, Gavin Schmidt, GISS research has turned to climate change and other global aspects of Earth's environment.
The main area that will be removed is a 100-acre zone known as"Area 400", which used to be used for propellant research until adjacent areas became built up. Since much of the work on propellants is on its way to other NASA centers or to commercial industry, the 11 structures there are mostly devoted to storage or"other support functions," NASA said in a 2022 update.
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