NASA Astronaut Corps
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The NASA Astronaut Corps is the group of highly trained astronauts who are selected, prepared, and assigned to crewed space missions for the United States space agency.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| NASA Astronaut Corps canonical | 90 |
| NASA astronauts | 11 |
| Scientist-Astronauts | 1 |
| United States astronauts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T717024 — 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.
Target entity: NASA Astronaut Corps Context triple: [Johnson Space Center, manages, NASA Astronaut Corps]
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Apollo astronauts
Apollo astronauts were the NASA crew members who flew on the Apollo missions, including those who journeyed to and walked on the Moon during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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NASA
NASA is the United States government agency responsible for the nation’s civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.
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C.
Commercial Crew Program
The Commercial Crew Program is a NASA initiative that partners with private companies to develop and operate crewed spacecraft for transporting astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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NASA APD
NASA APD is the NASA Astrophysics Division responsible for planning, funding, and overseeing the agency’s space-based and ground-based astrophysics research and missions.
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E.
NASA spacecraft
NASA spacecraft are robotic or crewed vehicles designed, built, and operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration for space exploration, scientific research, and technology demonstration beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: NASA Astronaut Corps Target entity description: The NASA Astronaut Corps is the group of highly trained astronauts who are selected, prepared, and assigned to crewed space missions for the United States space agency.
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A.
Apollo astronauts
Apollo astronauts were the NASA crew members who flew on the Apollo missions, including those who journeyed to and walked on the Moon during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
NASA
NASA is the United States government agency responsible for the nation’s civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research.
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C.
Commercial Crew Program
The Commercial Crew Program is a NASA initiative that partners with private companies to develop and operate crewed spacecraft for transporting astronauts to and from low Earth orbit, including the International Space Station.
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D.
NASA APD
NASA APD is the NASA Astrophysics Division responsible for planning, funding, and overseeing the agency’s space-based and ground-based astrophysics research and missions.
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NASA spacecraft
NASA spacecraft are robotic or crewed vehicles designed, built, and operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration for space exploration, scientific research, and technology demonstration beyond Earth's atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
astronaut corps
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organizational unit ⓘ |
| basedAt | Johnson Space Center ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| employer | NASA ⓘ |
| employs |
NASA Astronaut Corps
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
NASA astronauts
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| field |
aerospace
ⓘ
space exploration ⓘ |
| formedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| hasMemberType |
active astronauts
ⓘ
astronaut candidates ⓘ management astronauts ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Johnson Space Center ⓘ |
| includes |
international partner astronauts
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mission specialist astronauts ⓘ payload specialist astronauts ⓘ pilot astronauts ⓘ |
| industry | human spaceflight ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| location |
Houston
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surface form:
Houston, Texas
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| notableMissionType |
Apollo program
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surface form:
Apollo program missions
International Space Station program ⓘ
surface form:
International Space Station expeditions
NASA Space Shuttle program ⓘ
surface form:
Space Shuttle missions
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| operatedBy | NASA ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | NASA ⓘ |
| partOf | NASA ⓘ |
| purpose |
assignment of astronauts to crewed space missions
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selection of astronauts ⓘ training of astronauts ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
astronaut career management
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crew assignments ⓘ crewed NASA space missions ⓘ |
| scope | crewed spaceflight for the United States space agency ⓘ |
| selectionCriteria |
citizenship of the United States for NASA career astronauts
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education in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics ⓘ medical fitness ⓘ professional experience ⓘ |
| selectionProcess | astronaut candidate program ⓘ |
| trainsFor |
Artemis program
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surface form:
Artemis program missions
extravehicular activity ⓘ flight training ⓘ international space station operations ⓘ robotic arm operations ⓘ space shuttle operations ⓘ spacecraft systems operations ⓘ spaceflight operations ⓘ survival training ⓘ |
| worksWith |
Artemis program
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Commercial Crew Program ⓘ International Space Station program ⓘ
surface form:
International Space Station Program
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How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: NASA Astronaut Corps Description of subject: The NASA Astronaut Corps is the group of highly trained astronauts who are selected, prepared, and assigned to crewed space missions for the United States space agency.
Referenced by (103)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.