Final Meeting of the NACA
The Final meeting of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was on August 21, 1958. After the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik satellites in late 1957, the United States decided that it needed to re-organize civil space efforts. On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 85-568 and established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). T. Keith Glennan was sworn in as the first Administrator of NASA on August 19, 1958, and on October 1, the official effective date of the new agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was absorbed into NASA, along with several other government space research organizations. Left to right: T. Keith Glennan, NASA Administrator; Mr. Preston R. Bassett, member of the NACA Committee on Aerodynamics; Mr. Charles J. McCarthy, Chairman of the Board, Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: naca_01
Date: August 21, 1958
Final Meeting of the NACA
The Final meeting of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was on August 21, 1958. After the launch of the Soviet Union's Sputnik satellites in late 1957, the United States decided that it needed to re-organize civil space efforts. On July 29, 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 85-568 and established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). T. Keith Glennan was sworn in as the first Administrator of NASA on August 19, 1958, and on October 1, the official effective date of the new agency, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was absorbed into NASA, along with several other government space research organizations. Left to right: T. Keith Glennan, NASA Administrator; Mr. Preston R. Bassett, member of the NACA Committee on Aerodynamics; Mr. Charles J. McCarthy, Chairman of the Board, Chance Vought Aircraft, Inc.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: naca_01
Date: August 21, 1958