Final meeting of NACA

Final meeting of NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics). In October 1958, three months after the establishment of he National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), NACA was absorbed in to the new agency. Image date: August 21, 1958. From 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.

Image ID: 001233

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Image keywords: 1900s, 20th-century, Americas, Charles J. McCarthy, Eon4412, EonBudget, Modern-Industrial, NACA, NASA, People, Photographs, Preston R. Bassett, Science-Technology, T. Keith Glennan, United States, government agencies, space, space exploration, space race

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