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  • congress established NACA in the early 1920s to promote and perform research on the airplane and in aviation in general.
  • congress changed the name of NACA to NASA in 1958, when it added the civilian space program to their responsibilities.

neither NACA nor NASA ever had direct involvement in any weapons development, nuclear or conventional.

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