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This Day in History:
July 29, 1955

President Dwight Eisenhower endorses launching a small earth satellite the size of a basketball as a portion of US participation in the International Geophysical Year July 1957 to December 1958. The next day, the Soviet Union announces that it too plans to launch an earth satellite.