add in of old material or add to new page this edit was definately a great improvement the only thing is it stripped out some information that i think was good how about we add some of it back in or add some of it to start a new artcile goddard space flight center facilities or list of facilities of the goddard space flight center or something like that comments here is the material that was taken out on that edit west campus the west campus contains buildings that support administration research design and construction of spacecraft operation of spacecraft information storage and archival and data analysis the buildings generally are two to three stories high often brick and simply detailed amenities include two cafeterias a base exchange operated by the goddard employees welfare association gewa a library a health services unit a post office and recreation areas west campus facilities include the diffraction grating evaluation facility dgef was developed at goddard to evaluate optical components such as diffraction gratings mirrors and filters as well as detection systems used in space instrumentation the flight dynamics facility fdf provides engineering services to missions including orbit determination attitude determination maneuver planning spacecraft navigation systems and attitude sensor performance analysis currently fdf provides orbit and attitude determination for more than nasa spacecraft and also supports space shuttle operations and expendable launch vehicles the high capacity centrifuge located in building is a g rotary accelerator capable of rotating pound payloads at up to rpm and is housed in its own circular building tilt fixtures allow the orientation of test articles in a wide range of attitudes and angles the nasa communications network nascom is a global system that provides communications support to all nasa projects voice data and teletype links are available through the network for connecting the tracking and data relay satellite system tdrss with user spacecraft control centers land lines submarine cables and microwave satellite links make up this communications system the network control center ncc manages the total space network the ncc schedules and configures the tdrss and monitors the status of ongoing scheduled services operators schedule emergency services isolate any problems in the system and restore faulty user services the control center communicates with other stations through the nascom network the building payload operations control centers pocc are facilities that provide support to one or more spacecraft missions some are operated from gsfc for example soho and some are operated from offsite for example swift equipment located in control centers handles all data generates commands and interfaces with other stations the control centers also process experiment commands and telemetry and control payload and instrument operations the hubble space telescope control center stocc in building is the facility where hubble space telescope hst managers and engineers monitor and control the orbiting observatory past missions operated at gsfc include the compton gamma ray observatory cobe and iue the space environment simulator is a three story high thermal vacuum chamber nicknamed the ses located in building that features an meter diameter by meter high vacuum chamber capable of simulating temperature and vacuum conditions for virtually any launch or orbital environment condition shroud temperatures within the chamber can be controlled to c to c the national space science data center nssdc at gsfc provides online and offline access to a wide variety of astrophysics space plasma and solar physics lunar and planetary and earth science data from nasa space flight missions nssdc also provides access to online information for the spacecraft and experiments that have or will provide public access data the spacecraft fabrication facility where goddard technicians and engineers manufacture components used for spacecraft assembly this includes the tools which the astronauts use in space as well as the spacecraft themselves the building spacecraft systems development and integration facility is a m facility that contains one of the largest cleanrooms in the world the high bay cleanroom is a class m horizontal flow cleanroom measuring x x meters 'x 'x ' its five con