This What's New in Aerospace? program, moderated by National Air and Space Museum curator Bob van der Linden, is presented as part of the NACA Centenary symposium and includes the following presentations:

  • The NACA Transition to Space: Validating the Blunt Body; Presenter: Glenn Bugos, NASA Ames Research Center

  • Reaction Control Systems and the NACA; Presenter: Christian Gelzer, NASA Armstrong Research Center

  • Tin Soldiers and Glass Slippers: How Postwar Competition Sailplane Development Shifted from America to Europe; Presenter: Russell Lee, National Air and Space Museum

  • Towards Victory: NACA Public Relations on the Coattails of the Cold War, 1946-1958; Presenter: Kristen Starr, Auburn University

For more information about the symposium, including other sessions and presentations, visit the NACA Centenary: A Symposium on 100 Years of Aerospace Research and Development website.

This program is made possible through the generous support of Boeing.

  • NACA Hangar
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    The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of Edwards Air Force Base showed the wide range of research activities being undertaken.

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  • NACA Hangar
How to attend

National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC

6th St. and Independence Ave SW. Washington, DC 20560