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Cool. In some places it is common to only capitalize acronyms if they are pronounced as individual letters.

I don't personally agree with this convention, but apparently some people do:

"A growing convention, which I first came across in Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, dictates that if an acronym is pronounced as a word, then it should not be written in all caps. (As opposed to initialisms, which are pronounced as a series of letters. Compare Nato to USA.)"

http://scratchtap.com/when-acronyms-should-not-be-capitalize...

This a NASA article on a NASA web site

Yes, and (now, at least) the linked article has NASA capitalized in the title. (Unless you intended to reply to @tntn)