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NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2021
Entity authorityQ6952407 ↗
Source-derived summary

The NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal is an award given for technology contributions achieved in one of the following:

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 19-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-09-15. For this dossier, NASA, Exceptional and Technology is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.