Naca Pins and Buttons

Description: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel transferred to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NACA was pronounced as discrete letters, rather than as a whole word1 (and after NASA first came into being, it too was pronounced as discrete letters).2 With the creation of NASA in 1958, the NACA was abolished, and its research centers – Ames Research Center, Lewis Research Center, and Langley Aeronautical Laboratory – were incorporated within the new space and aeronautics agency along with some elem...

Description: A monochromatic emblem featuring a shield with the text 'NACA' in bold, sans-serif capital letters. Flanking the shield on either side are stylized wings, outlined in black with white fill, creating a classic badge appearance. The overall composition is symmetrical and centered.

Description: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics precedes what today is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, better known as NASA. Some of the most important work in aeronautics was done at NACA, especially during the Second World War.

Description: Stamp print of American mathematician and human computer who worked for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), and NASA Dorothy Vaughan.