STS-66
E509732
STS-66 was a 1994 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission focused on studying Earth's atmosphere and climate using the ATLAS-3 payload and related experiments.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| STS-66 canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5050265 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: STS-66 Context triple: [Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission, STS-66]
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A.
STS-26
STS-26 was the 1988 NASA Space Shuttle mission that marked the program’s return to flight following the Challenger disaster.
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B.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
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C.
STS-61
STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission best known for successfully repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope during a series of complex spacewalks.
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D.
STS-61-C
STS-61-C was a 1986 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for carrying future U.S. Senator and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as a payload specialist.
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E.
STS-36
STS-36 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission primarily dedicated to deploying a classified U.S. Department of Defense payload into orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: STS-66 Target entity description: STS-66 was a 1994 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission focused on studying Earth's atmosphere and climate using the ATLAS-3 payload and related experiments.
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A.
STS-26
STS-26 was the 1988 NASA Space Shuttle mission that marked the program’s return to flight following the Challenger disaster.
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B.
STS-76
STS-76 was a 1996 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission notable for delivering astronaut Shannon Lucid to the Russian Mir space station for a long-duration stay.
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C.
STS-61
STS-61 was a 1993 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour mission best known for successfully repairing and upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope during a series of complex spacewalks.
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D.
STS-61-C
STS-61-C was a 1986 NASA Space Shuttle Columbia mission notable for carrying future U.S. Senator and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson as a payload specialist.
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E.
STS-36
STS-36 was a 1990 NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis mission primarily dedicated to deploying a classified U.S. Department of Defense payload into orbit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
NASA spaceflight
ⓘ
Space Shuttle mission ⓘ |
| ATLASMissionNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| carriedInstrument |
ATLAS-3 atmospheric instruments
ⓘ
CRISTA (Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the Atmosphere) ⓘ
linked to:
Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer
MAHRSI (Middle Atmosphere High Resolution Spectrograph Investigation) ⓘ SOLCON (Solar Constant experiment) ⓘ SSBUV (Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet experiment) ⓘ SUSIM (Solar Ultraviolet Spectral Irradiance Monitor) ⓘ |
| commander | Donald R. McMonagle ⓘ |
| country |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| crewMember |
Curtis L. Brown Jr.
ⓘ
Donald R. McMonagle ⓘ Ellen Ochoa ⓘ Jean-François Clervoy ⓘ Joseph R. Tanner ⓘ Scott E. Parazynski ⓘ |
| crewSize | 6 ⓘ |
| followedBy | STS-63 ⓘ |
| landingDate | 1994-11-14 ⓘ |
| landingSite | Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility ⓘ |
| launchDate | 1994-11-03 ⓘ |
| launchSite | Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B ⓘ |
| missionDuration |
10 days
ⓘ
22 hours ⓘ 34 minutes ⓘ |
| missionNumber | 66 ⓘ |
| missionSpecialist |
Ellen Ochoa
ⓘ
Jean-François Clervoy ⓘ Joseph R. Tanner ⓘ Scott E. Parazynski ⓘ |
| notable | last flight of the ATLAS atmospheric research payload series ⓘ |
| objective |
collect data for climate change research
ⓘ
investigate ozone layer chemistry ⓘ measure atmospheric trace gases ⓘ study Earth’s atmosphere ⓘ study Earth’s climate ⓘ |
| operator | NASA ⓘ |
| orbitApogee | 309 km ⓘ |
| orbitInclination | 57.0 degrees ⓘ |
| orbitPerigee | 296 km ⓘ |
| orbitPeriod | 90.4 minutes ⓘ |
| payload |
Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science-3
ⓘ
CRISTA-SPAS-2 ⓘ |
| pilot | Curtis L. Brown Jr. ⓘ |
| precededBy | STS-68 ⓘ |
| primaryPayload | ATLAS-3 ⓘ |
| program |
Space Shuttle program
ⓘ
linked to:
NASA Space Shuttle program
|
| spacecraft | Space Shuttle Atlantis ⓘ |
| spacecraftSerialNumber | OV-104 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: STS-66 Description of subject: STS-66 was a 1994 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission focused on studying Earth's atmosphere and climate using the ATLAS-3 payload and related experiments.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.