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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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.
Sources
NASA (Wikipedia)
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)

This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 11 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds, 1 connected. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Institutions, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 connected, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

11

Institutions

Holds

1

Institutions

Connected

1

Institutions

General References

2

Institutions

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