Bedford Astronomy Club

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 Veriñcation 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