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1952 – Newspaper "The New York Times" reports that a mechanical heart was used for the first time to maintain the blood circulation of a 41-year-old man during an 80-minute operation on his heart.
1955 – Atomic subparticle the antiproton is discovered. The hunt for antimatter had begun in 1932, after the discovery of the positron. Antiprotons require almost 2,000x the amount of energy to create.
1962 – Drs. Watson, Crick and Wilkins win the Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology for their work in determining the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
1963 – "Félicette," a black and white female Parisian stray cat, becomes the first cat launched into space.
1967Probe Venera 4 reaches Venus, and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
2019NASA Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch take part in the first all-female spacewalk on board the International Space Station.