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NASA (Wikipedia)

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Wikipedia's article on NASA, the United States' civilian space agency, covering its 1958 founding under the National Aeronautics and Space Act.

Facts
Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
Source Type
reference
Reliability Tier
3
A community edited tertiary reference, used here for uncontested institutional facts (founding year, enabling legislation, seat) that are matters of public record rather than interpretation.
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Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)

This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Institutions, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

11

Institutions

General References

2

Institutions

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