ABMA:

Army Ballistic Missile Agency

AEC:

Atomic Energy Commission

AFRS:

Auxiliary Flight Research Station

AGARD:

Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research

AMPD:

Advanced Materials and Physics Division

AMR:

Atlantic Missile Range (Cape Canaveral, Patrick AF Base)

AO:

Administrative Operations

ARC:

Ames Research Center

ARDC:

Air Research and Development Command

ARPA:

Advanced Research Projects Agency

CAA:

Civil Aeronautics Administration

CNAS:

Chincoteague Naval Air Station

CNO:

Chief of Naval Operations

CoF:

Construction of Facilities

DOD:

Department of Defense

DOVAP:

Doppler Velocity and Position

FAA:

Federal Aviation Administration

FRC:

Flight Research Center (HSFS)

GEOS:

Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite

GSFC:

Goddard Space Flight Center (Beltsville Space Flight Center)

HSFS:

High Speed Flight Station (FRC)

IBM:

International Business Machines

ICBM:

Intercontinental Ballistic Missile

IGY:

International Geophysical Year

IQSY:

International Year of the Quiet Sun

IRD:

Instrument Research Division

JPL:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

LaRC:

Langley Research Center (LMAL, LAL, LRC)

LeRC:

Lewis Research Center

MIT:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MSC:

Manned Spacecraft Center (Houston)

MSFC:

Marshall Space Flight Center

MSFN:

Manned Space Flight Network

MSTS:

Military Sea Transport Service

NACA:

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics

NASA:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NATO:

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

NBS:

National Bureau of Standards

NRL:

Naval Research Laboratory

OLVP:

Office of Launch Vehicle Programs

OSFD:

Office of Space Flight Development

OSFP:

Office of Space Flight Programs

OSO:

Orbiting Solar Observatory

OSSA:

Office of Space Science and Applications

OTDA:

Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition

PARD:

Pilotless Aircraft Research Division

PMR:

Pacific Missile Range (Vandenberg AF Base)

PSAC:

President's Science Advisory Committee

RAM:

Radio Attenuation Measurement

R&D:

Research and Development

RAND:

Research And Development Corporation

RCA:

Radio Corporation of America

S&E:

Salary and Expenses

Scout:

Solid Controlled Orbital Utility Test System

Spandar:

Space Ranging Radar

SRB:

Solid Rocket Booster

SSUA:

Special Subcommittee on the Upper Atmosphere

STADAN:

Space Tracking and Data Acquisition Network

STG:

Space Task Group

TAGIU:

Tracking and Ground Instrumentation Unit

Tiros:

Television Infra-Red Observation Satellite

TOS:

Tiros Operational System

UARRP:

Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel

USNS:

United States Naval Ship

VPI:

Virginia Polytechnic Institute