Appendix A
Glossary
- AAS
- American Astronautical Society
- ABMA
- Army Ballistic Missile Agency
- AEDC
- Arnold Engineering Development Center (Air Force test organization and
facilities)
- AEIP
- Augmented Engine Improvement Program
- AF
- Air Force
- AFB
- Air Force Base
- AFSC
- Air Force Systems Command (formerly ARDC)
- AGE
- Aerospace ground equipment
- AIAA
- American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics
- AMR
- Atlantic Missile Range
- AMRL
- Aerospace Medical Research Laboratories
- AMU
- Astronaut maneuvering unit
- A-OK
- Everything in good working order
- AOMC
- Army Ordnance Missile Command
- ARDC
- Air Research and Development Command
- ARPA
- Advanced Research Projects Agency
- AS
- Apollo-Saturn (used until mid-1967 as Apollo mission designations; e.g.,
AS-201)
- ASPO
- Apollo Spacecraft Program Office (NASA-MSC, Houston)
- ATC
- Air Training Command
- ATDA
- Augmented target docking adapter
- ATV
- Agena target vehicle
- BAC
- Bell Aerosystems Company
- Ballute
- Balloon parachute
- BSD
- Ballistic Systems Division, Air Force
- C&C
- Command and communications (Agena system)
- Capcom
- Capsule communicator
- CCP
- Contract change proposal
- c.g.
- Center of gravity
- CR
- Contractor report
- CRB
- Capsule Review Board
- CSAT
- Combined systems acceptance test
- CSM
- Command and service modules (Apollo)
- CSQ
- Coastal Sentry
Quebec tracking ship
- D-
- Department of Defense experiments prefix
- DCR
- Design certification review
- DEI
- Design (development) engineering inspection
- DOD
- Department of Defense E and D Engineering and Development
- ECS
- Environmental control system
- EEG
- Electroencephalogram
- ELSS
- Extravehicular life support system
- EP
- Educational Publication (NASA)
- EPO
- Experiments Program Office (also EXPO)
- ER
- Engineering Report
- ESP
- Extravehicular support package
- ETR
- Eastern Test Range (Air Force)
- EVA
- Extravehicular activity
- EXPO
- Experiments Project Office (also EPO)
- FACI
- First article configuration inspection
- FO
- Flight Operations
- FOD
- Flight Operations Division; Flight Operations Directorate
- FOP
- Financial operating plan
- FSD
- Flight Systems Division
- FSRB
- Flight Safety Review Board
- g
- Gravity
- G and N, G&N
- Guidance and navigation
- GAO
- General Accounting Office
- GATV
- Gemini Agena target vehicle
- GDC
- General Dynamics Convair (usually GD/C)
- GE
- General Electric
- GEMSIP
- Gemini Stability Improvement Program
- g.e.t.
- Ground elapsed time
- G4C
- Gemini pressure suit, 4th model, David Clark Company (Grissom and Young
wore G3C suits, which were not capable of supporting extra-vehicular activity;
Borman and Lovell wore G5C soft suits)
- GIE
- Ground interface equipment
- GLV
- Gemini launch vehicle
- GOSS
- Ground operational support system
- GPO
- Gemini Project/Program Office
- GPPB
- Gemini Program Planning Board
- GSFC
- Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)
- GT
- Gemini-Titan
- GTA
- Gemini-Titan-Agena
- HHMU
- Handheld maneuvering unit
- HHN
- Headquarters Historical Note (NASA)
- HSTV
- Half-scale test vehicle
- IBM
- International Business Machines
- ICBM
- Intercontinental ballistic missile
- IESD
- Instrumentation and Electronic Systems Division, MSC
- IPST
- Israel Program for Scientific Information
- IVAR
- Insertion velocity adjust routine (spacecraft maneuver)
- JPL
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- K
- Kelvin (measurement of temperature - metric system)
- KSC
- John F. Kennedy Space Center
- laser
- Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
- LEM
- Lunar excursion module (later changed to LM - lunar module - Apollo)
- LEO
- Large Earth Orbit
- LeRC
- Lewis Research Center (NASA)
- LLVPG
- Large Launch Vehicle Planning Group
- LMSC
- Lockheed Missiles & Space Company
- LORS
- Lunar optical rendezvous system
- LRC
- Langley Research Center (NASA)
- L/V
- Launch vehicle
- LVS
- Launch vehicle systems
- LVSO
- Launch Vehicle Systems Office
- M-
- Medical experiments prefix
- M=1, =2, etc.
- Revolution in which rendezvous is to take place
- MA
- Mercury-Atlas
- MAC
- McDonnell Aircraft Corporation
- MALLIR
- Manned Lunar Landing Involving Rendezvous
- MCC
- Mission Control Center
- MDS
- Malfunction detection system
- MFS
- Mission flight schedule
- MHR
- Marshall Historical Report
- MIT
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MK, Mk
- Mark
- MOCR
- Mission Operations Control Room
- MODS
- Manned orbital development system
- MOL
- Manned Orbiting Laboratory
- MORAD
- Manned Orbital Rendezvous and Docking
- MR
- Mercury-Redstone
- MSC
- Manned Spacecraft Center; also prefix for technological experiments
- MSF
- Manned space flight
- MSFC
- George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA)
- MSFEB
- Manned Space Flight Experiments Board
- NACA
- National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
- NASA
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- n.d.
- No date
- NORAD
- North American Air Defense
- NTIS
- National Technical Information Service, Department of Commerce
- OAMS
- Orbit attitude and maneuvering system
- OMSF
- Office of Manned Space Flight, NASA
- POISE
- Panel on In-Flight Scientific Experiments
- PSAC
- Presidents Science Advisory Committee
- rad
- Unit of absorbed dose of radiation equal to an energy of 100 ergs per gram
of irradiated material
- REP
- Rendezvous evaluation pod
- RFP
- Request for proposal
- RKV
- Rose Knot
Victor tracking ship
- ROM
- Rough order of magnitude
- RR
- Rendezvous radar
- S-
- Science experiments prefix
- Saint
- Satellite interceptor
- SAR
- Spacecraft acceptance review
- S/c
- Spacecraft
- SCD
- Specification control drawing
- SEDR
- Spacecraft Engineering Design (Development) Report
- Sep
- Separation
- SEPC
- Space Exploration Program Council
- SID
- Space & Information Systems Division, North American Aviation, Inc.
- SLV
- Standard (Atlas) launch vehicle
- SNORT
- Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track
- Sope
- Simulated off-the-pad ejection
- SP
- Special Publication (NASA)
- SPS
- Secondary propulsion system (Agena)
- SSD
- Space Systems Division, Air Force
- STG
- Space Task Group
- STL
- Space Technology Laboratories
- T-
- Aircraft designation (T-38 - trainer-38); also technical experiments
prefix
- TCA
- Thrust chamber assembly
- TDA
- Target docking adapter
- TETS
- Thursday Evening Tanking Society
- TM
- Technical memorandum
- TN
- Technical note
- TPI
- Terminal phase initiation
- TRW
- Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc.
- TT
- Technical translation
- TWX
- Teletype message
- UV
- Ultraviolet
- VAT
- Vehicle acceptance team
- VHF
- Very high frequency
- WETS
- Wednesday Evening Tanking Society
- WRE
- Weapons Research Establishment, Department of Supply, Commonwealth of
Australia
- WSMR
- White Sands Missile Range
