# Launching the Future of Flight, The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (Prelude) (20250220-AAV3550-NACA-Series-Prelude-v1)

The predecessor of NASA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was founded in 1915 with the intent of being an advisory committee that would coordinate research underway elsewhere. It quickly became a leading research organization in the new field of aeronautics, pushing back the boundaries of flight until its transformation into NASA in 1958.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: NASA Ames Research Center
- Genres: Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Launching_the_Future_of_Flight,_The_National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics_(Prelude)_(20250220-AAV3550-NACA-Series-Prelude-v1).webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: NASA Ames Research Center
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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