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 ...

On March 3, 1915, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was established, laying the foundation for what would later become NASA. Created to "undertake, promote, and institutionalize ...

It hasn’t had quite the impact of GPS or the atomic bomb, but in the pantheon of items created by U.S. government researchers, the NACA duct must be considered one of the most enduring. This story ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...