AACB

Aeronautics and Astronautics Coordinating Board

AAN

Apollo Action Note

AAP

Apollo Applications Program (renamed Skylab)

AAS

American Astronautical Society

ACUSNY

Association of Colleges and Universities of the State of New York

AGARD

Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development

AIAA

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

AIEC

Association of Independent Engineering Colleges

ALSEP

Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package

AOH

Apollo Operations Handbook

ARC

Ames Research Center

ASAP

Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel

ASEB

Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board

ASI

Automotive Sterling Engine

ASME

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASPO

Apollo Spacecraft Program Office

ASTP

Apollo Soyuz Test Project

ATM

Apollo Telescope Mount

ATS

Applications Technology Satellite

BEST

Bicentennial Exposition on Science and Technology

BOB

Bureau of the Budget (later the Office of Management and Budget)

BP

Boilerplate

C/L

Checklist

CARR

Customer Acceptance Readiness Review

CCA

Contract Change Authorization

CCB

Configuration Control Board

CDR

Critical Design Review

CED

Committee for Economic Development

CICU

Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities

CM

Command Module

COSEPUP

Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy

COSPAR

Committee on Space Research

CSC

Civil Service Commission

CSM

Command and Service Module

DCR

Design Certification Review

DEI

Design Engineering Inspection

DFI

Development Flight Instrumentation

DM

Docking Module

DOD

Department of Defense

DOI

Department of the Interior

DOT

Department of Transportation

EASEP

Early Apollo Scientific Experiments Package

ECS

Environmental Control System

EEO

Equal Employment Opportunity

EMU

Extravehicular Mobility Unit

EOP

Executive Office of the President

EOR

Earth-Orbit Rendezvous

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

ERC

Electronics Research Center

ERDA

Energy Research and Development Administration

EREP

Earth Resources Experiments Package

ERTS

Earth Resources Technology Satellite (renamed Landsat)

ESA

European Space Agency

ESRO

European Space Research Organization

EVA

Extravehicular Activity

EVAL

Earth Viewing Applications Laboratory

FAA

Federal Aviation Administration

FAMOUS

French-American Mid-Ocean Undersea Study

FCST

Federal Council for Science and Technology

FITH

Fire In The Hole

FRC

Flight Research Center (renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center in Jan. 1976)

FRR

Flight Readiness Review

G & C

Guidance and Control

G & N

Guidance and Navigation

GAEC

Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation

GAO

General Accounting Office

GARP

Global Atmosphere Research Program

GATE

GARP Atlantic Tropical Experiment

GE

General Electric Co.

GEOS

Geodynamic Experimental Ocean Satellite

GML

George M. Low

GMR

General Management Review

GSA

General Services Administration

GSFC

Goddard Space Flight Center

GT

Gemini-Titan

HEAO

High Energy Astronomy Observatory

HQS

Headquarters

IBM

International Business Machines Corporation

ICBC

Interagency Committee on Back Contamination

ICCERSP

Interagency Coordination Committee: Earth Resources Survey Program

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

INTELSAT

International Telecommunications Satellite Organization

JCF

James C. Fletcher

JPL

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

JSC

Johnson Space Center (formerly the Manned Spacecraft Center)

KSC

John F. Kennedy Space Center

LACIE

Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment

LAGEOS

Laser Geodynamic Satellite

LaRC

Langley Research Center

LC-39

Launch Complex 39

LEM

Lunar Excursion Module

LEP

Lunar Exploration Program

LeRC

Lewis Research Center

LLRV

Lunar Landing Research Vehicle

LLTV

Lunar Landing Training Vehicle

LM

Lunar Module

LOR

Lunar Orbit Rendezvous

LRL

Lunar Receiving Laboratory

LST

Large Space Telescope

LTA

Lunar Test Article

LV

Launch Vehicle

MA

Mercury-Atlas

MAC

McDonnell Aircraft Corporation

MCC

Mission Control Center

MDA

McDonnell Aircraft Corporation

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MJS

Mariner Jupiter Saturn

MMC

Martin Marietta Corporation

MOL

Manned Orbiting Laboratory

MOU

Memorandum of Understanding

MR

Mercury-Redstone

MSC

Manned Spacecraft Center (renamed the Johnson Space Center in Feb. 1973)

MSFC

George C. Marshall Space Flight Center

MTF

Mississippi Test Facility

MTI

Mechanical Technology, Inc.

NAA

North American Aviation, Inc. (became North American Rockwell Corp. in Sept. 1967)

NACA

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

NAE

National Academy of Engineering

NARC

North American Rockwell Corporation (formerly North American Aviation, Inc.; became Rockwell International in Feb. 1973)

NAS

National Academy of Sciences

NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASC

National Aeronautics and Space Council

NERVA

Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NRC

National Research Council

NRL

Naval Research Laboratory

NSERC

National Solar Energy Research Consortium

NSF

National Science Foundation

NSTL

National Space Technology Laboratory

OA

NASA Office of Applications

OAO

Orbiting Astronomical Observatory

OART

NASA Office of Advanced Research and Technology

OAST

NASA Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology

OFK

Official Flight Kit

OGO

Orbiting Geophysical Observatory

OMB

U.S. Office of Management and Budget

OMSF

NASA Office of Manned Space Flight

OSO

Orbiting Solar Observatory

OSS

NASA Office of Space Sciences (later Office of Space Science and Applications)

OSSA

NASA Office of Space Science and Applications

OST

White House Office of Science and Technology

OTDA

NASA Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition

OWS

Orbital Workshop

PAD

Project Approval Document

PAO

NASA Public Affairs Office

PCIC

President's Commission on Industrial Competitiveness

PDR

Preliminary Design Review

PLSS

Portable Life-Support System

QCSEE

Quiet Clean Short-haul Experimental Engine

QSRA

Quiet Short-haul Research Aircraft

R & D

Research and Development

RANN

Research Applied to National Needs

RASPO

Resident Apollo Spacecraft Program Office

RCA

Radio Corporation of America

RIF

Reduction in Force

RPI

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

RTAC

Research and Technology Advisory Committee

S-II

Saturn V Second Stage

S-IVB

Saturn V Third Stage

S/C

Spacecraft

SEASAT

Specialized Experimental Applications Satellite

SEB

Source Evaluation Board

SEC

Securities and Exchange Commission

SED

State Education Department

SERI

Solar Energy Research Institute

SL-#

Skylab Launch

SL-R

Skylab Rescue Launch

SLA

Spacecraft / Lunar Module Adapter

SM

Service Module

SMS

Synchronous Meteorological Satellite

SRB

Solid Rocket Booster

SRM

Solid Rocket Motor

SSB

Space Science Board

STAC

Science and Technology Advisory Committee

STADAN

Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network

STG

Space Task Group

STOL

Short Take-Off and Landing (aircraft)

STS

Space Transportation System

SWS

Skylab Workshop

TDRSS

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

TOP

Thomas O. Paine

TRW

TRW, Inc. (formerly Thompson Ramo Wooldridge, Inc.)

TWX

Teletype Wire Transmission

USAF

U.S. Air Force

USGS

U.S. Geological Survey

VTOL

Vertical Takeoff and Landing (aircraft)

WH

White House

WPPR

Work Planning and Progress Review

WS

Wallops Station

WSTF

White Sands Test Facility