40 NACA;National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics ) He was a United States federal agency founded on March 3, 1915 to undertake, promote, and institutionalizar aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958 the Agency was dissolved, and its resources and personnel formed the nucleus of the newly created NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration: national administration of Aeronautics and space ).