List of Abbreviations
AAAS |
American Association for the Advancement of Science |
AAP |
Apollo Applications Program |
ABF |
Air Bearing Floor |
ACR |
Active Cavity Radiometer |
AEPI |
Atmospheric Emission Photometric Imaging |
AES |
Apollo Extension System |
AF |
Air Force |
AFB |
Air Force Base |
AFROTC |
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps |
AKM |
Apogee Kick Motor |
ALAE |
Atmospheric Lyman-Alpha Emission |
ALSEP |
Apollo Lunar Surface Experiment Package |
AN |
Akademiya Nauk - the Soviet Academy of Sciences |
ANARE |
Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions |
AOSO |
Advanced Orbiting Solar Observatory |
APU |
Auxiliary Power Unit |
ASSESS |
Airborne Science/Spacelab Experiment System |
Simulation | |
ASTP |
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project |
ATM |
Apollo Telescope Mount |
ATO |
Abort-To-Orbit |
BIG |
Biological Isolation Garment |
BIS |
British Interplanetary Society |
CAG |
Carrier Air Group |
CalTech |
California Institute of Technology |
CAP |
Civil Air Patrol |
CB |
This is an internal JSC mailing code for the Astronaut |
Office. It stands for Directorate level C department B |
CDMS Command Data Management System
CETT Crew Equipment Tnterface Test
CFES Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System
CHASE Coronal Helium Abundance Spacelab Experiment
CM Command and Service Module
CMP Command Module Pilot
CSC Civil Service Commission
CSM Command and Service Module
CTSc Candidate of Technical Sciences
CVT Concept VeriƱcation Test
DCPS Dynamic Crew Procedures Simulator
DFVLR Deutsche Forschunesund Versuchsanstalt fur Luft und Raumfahrt - the Federal German Aerospace Research Establishment
DoD Department of Defense
DPS Data Processing Systems/software
DSc Doctorate of Science
DSO Detailed Supplementary Objectives
EASEP Early Apollo Surface Experiment Package
EDO Extended Duration Orbiter
EEG Electro-EncephaloGraph
WFPCTT Wide Field Planetary Camera TT (2)
EKGs Electro-cardioGrams (EKGs)
EMU Shuttle Extravehicular Mobility Unit
EO Experiment Operator
EOM Earth Observation Mission
EPS Electrical Power System/subsystem
EREP Earth Resources Experiment Package
ESA European Space Agency
ESRO European Space Research Organisation
EST Eastern Standard Time
ESTEC European Space TEChnology Centre
ETS Educational Testing Service
EV Extra Vehicular
EVA Extra Vehicular Activity
FAUST Far Ultraviolet Space Telescope
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FD Flight Day
FDA Federal Drug Agency
FDF Flight Data File
FE Flight Engineer
FGB Functional Cargo Bloc
FOD Flight Operations Directorate
FTD Foreign Technology Division
FY Financial Year
G&N
Gidromettsentr GIRD
GMVK
GSFC
HFMS
HOSC
ICBM
IFEP
IMBP
IMSS
IWCS
IZMIRAN
JSWG
LEVA
LSPF
LSPMS
Guidance & Navigation USSR Weather Service
Gruppa Isutcheniya Reaktivnovo Dvisheniya - Group for Investigation of Reactive Motion
Gosudarstvennaya Mezh Vedomstvennaya Komissiya - the
Russian State Interdepartmental Comission
General Purpose Computer
Goddard Space Flight Center
High Fidelity Mechanical Simulator
Huntsville Operations Support Center
Hubble Space Telescope
Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile
In-Flight Experiments Panel
Institute Kosmichelskikh Issledovany - Space Research Institute
Institute of Medical and Biological Problems
In-flight Medical Support System
Instructor-Pilot
Instrument Pointing System
Industrial Space Facility
Imaging Spectrometric Observatory
International Space Station
Inertial Upper Stage
Intra Vehicular Activity
Improved Waste Collection System
Investigators Working Group
Institut Zemovno Magnetizma Ionosfery i rasprostraneniya Radiovoln Akademii Nauk - Institute for Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Wave Propagation of the AN
Joint Integrated Simulations Jet Propulsion Laboratory Johnson Space Center Joint Spacelab Working Group Kennedy Space Center Lunar Excursion Module Launch Escape System Lunar ExtraVehicular Activity
Lunar Module (for Apollo) or Long Module (for Spacelab)
Lunar Module Pilot
Lunar and Planetary Institute
Lunar Receiving Laboratory
Life Science Directorate
Life Sciences Payload Facility
Life Science Payload Mission Simulation
MA-6 |
Mercury-Atlas-6 (John Glenn's flight) |
MAI |
Moscow Aviation Institute |
MCC |
Mission Control Center |
MCC-H |
Mission Control Center - Houston |
MDA |
Multiple Docking Adapter |
MDF |
Manipulator Development Facility |
MECO |
Main Engine Cut-Off |
MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
MMP |
Mission Module Pilot |
MMPI |
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory |
MMU |
Manned Manoeuvring Unit |
MOCR |
Mission Operations Control Room |
MOL |
US Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory |
MOLAB |
MObile LAB |
MPG |
Mission Planning Group |
MS |
Mission Specialist |
MSC |
Manned Spacecraft Center |
MSE |
Manned Spaceflight Engineer |
MSEP |
Mercury Scientific Experiment Panel |
MSFC |
Marshall Space Flight Center |
MSG |
Mission Steering Group |
MTVT |
Manned Thermal Vacuum Tests |
NAA |
North American Aviation |
NACA |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics |
NAS |
National Academy of Sciences |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NBC |
JSC Neutral Buoyancy Simulator |
NBS |
Neutral Buoyancy Simulator |
NII |
Nauchno Issledovatelsky Institut - the Russian Scientific |
Research Institute | |
NIIAS |
Scientific Research Institute for Automatic Systems |
NKVD |
People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs |
NOAA |
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
NPO |
Nauchno Priozvodstvennoye Obedineniye - the Russian |
Scientific Production Association | |
NRC |
National Research Council |
NROTC |
Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps |
NSBRI |
National Space Biomedical Research Institute |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
NSSTC |
National Space Science & Technology Center |
OFT |
Orbital Flight Test |
OKB-1 |
Opytnoe Konstructorskoe Byuro - Experimental Design |
Bureau | |
OMSF |
Office of Manned Space Flight |
ORFEUS-SPAS |
ORFEUS - Orbiting Retrievable Far-and-Extreme |
Ultraviolet Spectrometer; SPAS - Shuttle Pallet | |
Applications Satellite | |
OSS |
Office of Space Science |
OWS |
Orbital WorkShop (the Skylab station) |
PABF |
Precision Air Bearing Floor |
PAM |
Payload Assist Module |
PAO |
Public Affairs Office or Officer |
PC |
Payload Commander |
PDSTS |
Physical Diagnosis Self-Teaching System |
PFTA |
Payload Flight Test Article |
PI |
Principal Investigator |
PICPAB |
Phenomena Induced by Charged PArticle Beams |
PKM |
Perigee Kick Motor |
PLSS |
Portable Life Support System |
POCC |
Payload Operations Control Center |
POISE |
Panel On In-flight Scientific Experiments |
PS |
Payload Specialist |
PSAC |
President's Science Advisory Committee |
QRP |
A ham expression for very low power (no exact translation) |
RAAF |
Royal Australian Air Force |
RAF |
Royal Air Force |
RAHF |
Research Animal Holding Facility |
RAN |
Russian Academy of Sciences |
RCS |
Reaction Control System |
RKK Energiya |
Raketno Komicheskaya Korporatsiya - the Russian |
Rocket-Space Corporation | |
RLE |
MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics |
RMS |
Remote Manipulator System |
ROTC |
Reserve Officer Training Corps |
S-IVB |
Saturn-4B - the third stage of a Saturn V and the second |
stage of a Saturn IB | |
SA |
Scientist-Astronaut |
SAFER |
Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue |
SAIC |
Science Applications International Corporation |
SAIL |
Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory |
SAL |
Skylab Air Lock |
SAM |
Surface-to-Air Missile |
SAREX |
Space Amateur Radio Experiment |
SAS |
Space Adaptation Syndrome |
SASTPC |
Scientific Association for the Study of Time in Physics in |
Cosmology | |
SEPAC |
Space Experiments with Particle ACcelorators |
SES |
Space Environment Simulator |
SFC |
Space Flight Center |
SIGINT |
SIGnal INTelligence satellite |
Sil Space Industries Incorporated
SIR Synthetic Imaging Radar
SLIC Student Life and Interest Committee
SM Short Module
SMD Spacelab Mission Development
SMEAT Skylab Medical Experiment Attitude Test
SMS Shuttle Mission Simulator
SO ISS Science Officer
SolCon Solar Constant
SolSpec Solar Spectrum
SOS Space Operations Simulator
SP Spacelab Pallet
SPAC Space Program Advisory Council
SPAN SPacecraft ANalysis
SPEDO Solar Powered Extended Duration Orbiter
SPICE Spacelab Payload Integration and Coordination in Europe
SPS Service Propulsion System (Apollo)
SRL Systems Research Laboratories
SRB Solid Rocket Booster
SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine
STS Space Transportation System (Shuttle)
TDRS Tracking and Data Relay Satellite
TRW Formerly Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.
TsPK Cosmonaut training centre
TsVNIAG Tsentralny Voyenny Nauchno Issledovatelsky Aviatsionny Gospital - Central Military Scientific Research Aviation Hospital
UHV Ultra High Vacuum
UNC University of North Carolina
US PS United States Payload Specialist
USAF United States Air Force
USF University of South Florida
USGS US Geological Survey
USN United States Navy
UTMB University of Texas Medical Branch
UW University of Wisconsin
VAB Vehicle Assembly Building
VASIMIR VAriable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
VVS Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily
VWFC Very Wide Field Camera
WCS Waste Collection System
WETF Weightless Environment Training Facility
WMS Waste Management System
WTC Wyatt Technology Corporation
XMAS Extended Mission Apollo System

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