NEW YORK — NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies has stood on a Manhattan corner near Columbia University's campus since 1966.
The institute, called GISS for short, shares the building with Tom's Restaurant, a diner made famous by its regular appearance on the hit sitcom "Seinfeld." As George and Jerry discussed their dating lives over coffee, scientists two floors up were busy developing probes for NASA's Voyager program and analyzing the composition of Earth's atmosphere.
