Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.

The Space & Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, commonly referred to as SUPARCO, is the national space agency of Pakistan.

Mohammad Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. He was the first Pakistani, first Muslim scientist, and second Muslim to win a Nobel Prize.