Senator Ben Cardin along with members of the Maryland Space Business Roundtable visited Goddard on Sept. 30, 2016. Center Director Chris Scolese welcomed them and they toured James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), WFirst, the Satellite Servicing facility and ICEsat-2 ATLAS facility.

Senator Ben Cardin visited NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on Sept. 30, 2016. Senator Cardin met with Center Director Chris Scolese and received updates from project managers on various Earth sciences, space science and technology development efforts.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gives remarks as Senator Ben Cardin, D-MD., left, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, NASA astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) President Lisa Campbell, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., NASA astronauts Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, look on during a meet and greet, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Wiseman, Glover, Hammock Koch, and Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA astronaut Victor Glover gives remarks as Sen. Ben Cardin, D-MD., left, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, NASA Astronaut Christina Hammock Koch, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, CSA (Canadian Space Agency) President Lisa Campbell, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman look on, during a meet and greet, Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington. Glover along with Wiseman, Hammock Koch, and Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASA’s Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md, left, Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., second from left, and Rep. David Trone, D-Md, right, are seen as Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., second from right, delivers remarks ahead of the release of the first images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, Tuesday, July 12, 2022, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The first full-color images and spectroscopic data from the James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), are a demonstration of the power of Webb as the telescope begins its science mission to unfold the infrared universe. Photo Credit: (NASA/Taylor Mickal)