Goddard Space Center

The Goddard Space Center (GSC) was a major NASA space research laboratory established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center. It is located approximately 6.5 miles northeast of Washington, D.C. in Greenbelt, Maryland. When GDI begun first testing it's Ion Cannon technology, in order to protect the space-based weaponry, an A-SAT defence system was estabilished, with the hub placed at the Goddard Space Center.

Much of the center's old infrastructure was left intact, with GDI adding new facilities to existing ones. The center structure was the Orbital Defence Control that coordinated the whole GDI missile defence system, composed of kinetic kill vehicles, laser satellites and even the Ion Cannons.

Centralisation of such an important network was a tactical mistake, as Nod forces infiltrated the center and destroyed the control system, rendering the missile defence useless and allowing Kane to strike at Philadelphia, destroying it.

The Goddard Space Center did not survive.