Today marks a special anniversary for the NASA family. It was 100 years ago, on March 3, 1915, when Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the organization from which ...

Designed in 1945 by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (precursor to NASA), the NACA duct was intended as an air inlet for jets. Only it was a failure. The design wasn't any good for ...

Before NASA, there was the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. NASA’s chief historian, Bill Barry, tells Houston Matters about the innovations in aerospace the NACA made that flowed into the ...

During World War II, pilots evaluated a wide range of aircraft types for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). Test pilot Stefan Cavallo’s flight trials were critical to successful ...

We have heard quite a lot of late, some of it coming in the context of the 2012 presidential campaign, about the importance of NASA returning to its roots as a research and development agency ...