Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

2003 fatal incident in a United States space program
Event aviation_accident Q580867
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Summary

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster is an aviation accident[1]. It ranks in the top 0.28% of aviation_accident entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,062 views/month, #4 of 1,410).[2]

Key Facts

  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster is in the country of United States[3].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's image is recorded as Close-up STS-107 Launch - GPN-2003-00080.jpg[4].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's instance of is recorded as aviation accident[5].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's location is recorded as Louisiana[6].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's location is recorded as Texas[7].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's part of is recorded as STS-107[8].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's Commons category is recorded as Space Shuttle Columbia disaster[9].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's point in time is recorded as +2003-02-01T00:00:00Z[10].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0182s4[11].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Space Shuttle Columbia disaster[12].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's Commons gallery is recorded as STS-107[13].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+7'}[14].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's U.S. National Archives Identifier is recorded as 10664555[15].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as event/Columbia-disaster[16].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's start point is recorded as Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39[17].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's BBC Things ID is recorded as d68745eb-19ee-4e4c-b215-f5e73f28eb09[18].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's Aviation Safety Network Wikibase Occurrence is recorded as 244931[19].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's different from is recorded as Space Shuttle Challenger disaster[20].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as accident-de-la-navette-columbia[21].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's American National Biography ID is recorded as 2001896[22].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's Canadian Encyclopedia article ID is recorded as nasas-columbia-shuttle-disaster[23].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's KBpedia ID is recorded as ColumbiaAccident[24].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as engineering/columbia-accident[25].
  • Space Shuttle Columbia disaster's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Catastrophe_de_Columbia[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Space Shuttle Columbia disaster include Columbia[27], a supercomputer[28], in United States[29], founded in 2004[30].

Why It Matters

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ranks in the top 0.28% of aviation_accident entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,062 views/month, #4 of 1,410).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]

Entities named for it include Columbia[27], a supercomputer[28], in United States[29], founded in 2004[30].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [31] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [32] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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