NASA transfers ‘hundred-acre wood’ to Patuxent research refuge – NASA0

• Goddard Space Flight Center, SCIENCE, Science / Health, Science Mission Directorate, scientists, Space, Space Communications & Navigation Program, Space Launch System (SLS), Space Telescope, space-x-ipo, SpaceX
• July 7, 2026

NASA on Tuesday ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of forested land on the Greenbelt, Maryland, campus of the Goddard Space Flight Center to the adjacent Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly known as NASA Goddard Area 400, is now part of the largest block of