In 1915, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA was formed to help the United States learn everything it could, as fast as it could, about the science of flight. During the next 40 years, NACA research contributed to the design of every American aircraft of the time commercial and military. In 1958, NACA was replaced by NASA, and the new agency inherited a legacy of aeronautics research that had already contributed significantly to making flight safer and more efficient.

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