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The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was the U.S. agency responsible for space flight from 1915 until it was absorbed by the creation of NASA in 1958.
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Does NASA consider Joseph Walker to be an astronaut?
Joe Walker was a NACA and NASA test pilot who flew the X-15 aircraft twice above 100 km, which FAI uses their definition of an astronaut. Flight 90 achieved 106.01 km, and flight 91 reached 107.96 km....
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Was General Doolittle involved in the invention of RP-1?
James Doolittle is most famous for leading the 1942 air raid on Tokyo. However, between the world wars, he earned a doctorate in aeronautical engineering from MIT, became the manager of Shell Oil's ...
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