NASA born from NACA

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1 October, 1958

On 1st October 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was born when the existing National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was dissolved. NACA had been set up on 3rd March 1915. United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act on 29th July 1958 which led to the creation of NASA.