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NASA Thesaurus

Metadata Updated: August 23, 2025

The NASA Thesaurus contains the authorized NASA subject terms used to index and retrieve materials in the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) and the NTRS Registered (Formerly NA&SD). The scope of this controlled vocabulary includes not only aerospace engineering, but all supporting areas of engineering and physics, the natural space sciences (astronomy, astrophysics, planetary science), Earth sciences, and the biological sciences. The NASA Thesaurus contains over 18,400 subject terms, 4,300 definitions, and more than 4,500 USE cross references.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
Data Update Frequency irregular

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date August 23, 2025
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Maintainer
Identifier NASA-0000092
Data First Published 2018-06-25
Data Last Modified 2025-07-17
Category Management/Operations
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 026:00
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Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
Homepage URL https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/nasa-thesaurus
Program Code 026:046
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash dd6de668400835987efac624f88ba595fb6c5ec0241e35ccf0c39d722f56c1af
Source Schema Version 1.1

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