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NASA never predicted an ice age.NASA predicted the coming ice age in 1971
Then the media latched on just as they did with global warming
And now climate change
In the 70s a FEW scientists (none attributed to NASA, I believe) speculated about possible global cooling and yes it was blown out of proportion in a couple of magazine articles. But not widespread and not for long.
The overwhelming majority of scientists even back then were more concerned about global warming trends.
NASA has predicted the POSSIBILITY of a reduction in solar activity at some point, which is not an ice age and would not cause an ice age. They say that greenhouse gasses exert six times the influence on global temperatures than what a reduction in solar activity would do. So even if it happened, the overall effect would be a continuation of global warming, but at about 5/6ths of the current speed. No ice ages in sight.
Here's a little further reading on the fallacy that scientists in the 1970s predicted an ice age https://skepticalscience.com/ice-age-predictions-in-1970s-intermediate.htm