Ingeniero Mecáncio UdeA
Director, Cordinador Científico y Técnico
Inges Aerospace, Incaes Aerospace
email: campoelias.roldan@gmail.com
En la reacción posterior al lanzamiento del Sputnik 1, la Sociedad Americana de Cohetería propuso que debería establecerse un cuerpo controlado por civiles dentro del gobierno para el manejo de un programa de Ciencias Espaciales.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1954/12/11/1954_12_11_032_TNY_CARDS_000245694
El conservador Comité Asesor Nacional para la Aeronáutica (NACA = National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) estableció un comité para revisar la Tecnología Aeroespacial; y bajo la administración del Dr. James A. Van Allen, el Panel de Investigación Satelital y de Cohetes de la academia Nacional de Ciencias propuso el 21 de Noviembre de 1957 que debería crearse el Establecimiento Espacial Nacional- Estos dos grupos hicieron una propuesta de unión el 4 de enero de 1958 y 10 días mas tarde la NACA publica un staff de personas para un programa Nacional de la NACA, el Departamento de Defensa, la Fundación Nacional de Ciencia y la Academia Nacional de Ciencia.
Dr.James Van Allen 
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Description: The employees of the NACA High-Speed Flight Station are gathered for a 1954 photo shoot on the front steps of building 4800, the new NACA Facility at Main Base of Edwards Air Force Base, California.
This new building was considerably larger than the earlier NACA buildings on South Base, but then the staff had increased and the extra space was needed. From 1950 when an earlier group picture was taken (E-33717) until 1954 the staff at NACA increased from 132 to 250. As the workload increased and more research flights were completed the complement of employees grew to 662 in 1966.
More changes took place in 1954 with the Station being called the NACA High-Speed Flight Station. A further name change occurred in October 1958 to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) High-Speed Flight Station and again in September 1959 to the NASA Flight Research Center. There would be two more name changes before the next group photo (EC85-33160-2) would be made. On March 1976 to NASA Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center and in October 1981 when the Center became the Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility.
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