[Darksheare]

NASA was previously NACA, from which the aeronautical world gets “Naca airfoil (number)” and other aeronautical engineering.
This was prior to operation paperclip where we snatched Von Braun.
Easy enough to look up.
But liars, hoaxers, and trolls won’t do that.

[chimera]

IIRC Von Braun initially worked for the Army. That was when he developed the Redstone and Jupiter missiles, which were the descendants of the V-2 program. All this was pre-NASA. The US Government (not Von Braun) organized NASA from its predecessor agency, the NACA, as you note.

We also scooped up a lot of very capable Canadian engineers from thee Arrow supersonic fighter program that got canceled. A lot of them went to work for NACA at Langley. I remember the stories of the locals in the Tidewater area calling them the NACA-nuts.