Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 286, The

Entire History of NASA.

I'm Gary Jordan, I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts, usually to talk

about human spaceflight, but you know what, why limit ourselves, right?

NASA has a rich and storied history.

Its beginnings, people often forget, was in aviation.

The NACA, or National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, laid the groundwork for how

we think about a national space program.

And it's more than just humans flying in the air and in space.

NASA has programs that extend from our home planet to the farthest reaches of the universe.

It's hard to capture everything that NASA has done since its formation, but there's

a new e-book that does a pretty good job.

This e-book is published on NASA.gov right now, and it's called NACA to NASA to Now, the

Frontiers of Air and Space in the American Century.

It came out very recently, and it captures some of the most significant moments in programs

of NASA's history and puts it into one concise volume.

It's a great read, full of narratives and layers that help to demonstrate how widespread

NASA's efforts are.

Lucky for us, we were able to chat with the book's author, Roger Lonious, formerly NASA's

Chief Historian and the Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs at

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