1958
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Events
- July 29 - The "National Aeronautics and Space Administration" (NASA) is created, in order to replace the "National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics" (NACA).
- Earth's magnetosphere is discovered, a region of space in which charged particles are affected by a celestial object's magnetic field.
- Two biologists report that the first mammals, a litter of mice, have been grown from embryos, which were developed in vitro and transferred to a surrogate mother.
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