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On March 3, 2015, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) celebrated 100 years since the founding of its predecessor -- the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA. Earlier here at the Johnson Space Center some of the Original NACA engineers and NASA -leaders gathered to cut cake, chronicle remembrances and celebrate the centennial of NACA. Left to right seated Chester A. Vaughan, Joseph Guy Thibodaux, Jr., Norman H. Chaffee. Standing left to right Billy D. Sevier, Robert F. Thompson, Marilyn Lunney, Glynn S. Lunney, William R. Dusenbury, Christopher C. Kraft, M. Howard Sands, and John R. Garman.