John Boyd, known to many as Jack and whose career spanned more than seven decades in a multitude of roles across NASA as well as its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) ...
as well as the F-102 and F-106 fighters. In 1958, just before Ames became part of a newly established NASA, Boyd recalled thinking, "Maybe someday we'll go out into the far blue yonder ...