NASA founded
1958 · Event
The US creates a civilian space agency in response to Sputnik, the vehicle of the coming space race and Moon landings.
On these timelines: Science & Technology, Spaceflight, The Space Race, Master, Arts and Thoughts
More from Science & Technology
- Isaac Newton (1643)
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (1543)
- Invention of the transistor (1947)
- Bell patents the telephone (1876)
- Edison's incandescent light bulb (1879)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Mendeleev's Periodic Table (1869)
Around 1958
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- The Troubles (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Korean War (1950)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)