| AASEM |
Assembly of Station by EVA Methods |
| ACCESS |
Assembly Concept for Construction of Erectable Space Structure
|
| ACS |
Advanced Camera for Surveys |
| ACTS |
Advanced Communications Technology Satellite |
| AERCam Sprint |
Autonomous EVA Robotic Camera/Sprint |
| AFB |
Air Force Base |
| AIUS Agroresurs |
Avtomatizirovannaya Informatsionno-Upravlencheskaya Sistema
Agroresurs (Automatic Information Direction System Agroresurs) |
| Almaz |
Codename for a Soviet military space station |
| ALSEP |
Apollo Lunar Scientific Experiment Package |
| AMN |
Akademiya Meditsinskikh Nau = Academy of Medical Sciences |
| AMOS |
Air Force Maui Optical System |
| AMS |
Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer |
| AMU |
Astronaut Maneuvering Unit |
| AN |
Akademiya Nauk = Academy of Sciences (of the USSR) |
| AO Gazkom |
Aktsionernoye Obshchestvo Gazkom = Joint Stock Company Gazkom |
| APM |
Atmospheric Particle Monitor |
| ASA/T |
Advanced Suborbital Astronaut Trainee |
| ASCS |
Automatic Stabilization and Control System |
| ASI |
Agenzia Spaziale Italiana = Italian Space Agency |
| ASSR |
Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic |
| ASTP |
Apollo Soyuz Test Project |
| AT&T |
American Telephone & Telegraph Corporation |
| ATDA |
Augmented Target Docking Adapter |
| ATLAS |
Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science |
| ATM |
Apollo Telescope Mount |
| ATO |
Abort To Orbit |
| ATV |
Automated Transfer Vehicle |
| B.S. |
Bachelor of Science |
| B.S.E. |
Bachelor of Science in Engineering |
| BBC |
British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BBXRT |
Broad Band X-Ray Telescope |
| CapCom |
Capsule Communicator, now: Spacecraft Communicator |
| CANEX |
Canadian experiments |
| CBOSS |
Cellular Biotechnology Operations Support System |
| CDR |
Commander |
| CEO |
Crew Earth Observations |
| CERN |
European Organization for Nuclear Research |
| CETA |
Crew and Equipment Translation Aid |
| CFES |
Continuous Flow Electrophoresis System |
| CMG |
control moment gyroscope |
| CMP |
Command Module Pilot |
| CNES |
Centre National de Etudes Spatiales = French Space Agency |
| COLA |
Collision Avoidance Maneuver |
| COSTAR |
Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement |
| CRISTA |
Cryogenic Infrared Spectrometers and Telescopes for the
Atmosphere |
| CRO |
Chemical Release Observation |
| CSA |
Canadian Space Agency |
| CSM |
Command & Service Module |
| DAFT |
The Dust and Aerosol Measurement Feasibility Test |
| DASA |
DaimlerChrysler Aersospace Corporation |
| DIU |
Data Interface Unit |
| DLR |
German Aerospace Center |
| DMP |
Docking Module Pilot |
| DoD |
Department of Defence |
| DOSAAF |
Dobrovolnoye Obshchestvo Sodeistviya Armii, Aviatsii i Flotu = Free
Will Society for the Support of the Army, Aviation and Fleet |
| DSCS |
Defense Satellite Communications System |
| D.V.M. |
Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine |
| DVO |
Dalnevostochny Voyenny Okrug = (Far East Military District) |
| DXS |
Diffuse X-Ray Spectrometer |
| EAC |
European Astronaut Center |
| EASE |
Experimental Assembly of Structures in Extravehicular Activity |
| EASEP |
Early Apollo Scientific Experiment Package |
| EDFT |
EVA Development Flight Tests |
| ELC |
EXPRESS Logistics Carrier |
| EO |
Ekspeditsiya Osnovnaya (Main Expedition) |
| EOM |
Earth Observation Mission |
| EPAS |
Eksperimentalny Polyot Apollon-Soyuz = Experimental Flight
Apollo-Soyuz |
| EPOS "Spiral" |
Eksperimentalny Pilotiruyamy Orbitalny Samolyot Spiral =
Experimental Piloted Orbital Aircraft Spiral |
| FPP |
Floating Potential Probe |
| ERA |
Experimental deployable structure |
| ERA |
European Robotic Arm (ESA) |
| ERBS |
Earth Radiation Budget Satellite |
| ESA |
European Space Agency |
| ESPAD |
External Stowage Platform-2 Attachment Device |
| ESLS |
Redundant Sequence Launch Sequencer |
| ESP |
External Stowage Platform |
| ESTEC |
European Space Research and Technology Centre in Nordwijk (The
Netherlands) |
| ESTR |
Engineering / Science Tape Recorder |
| EURECA |
European Retrievable Carrier |
| EuTEF |
European Technology Exposure Facility |
| EVA |
Extra Vehicular Activity |
| FE |
Flight engineer |
| FGB |
Functional Energy Block |
| FGS |
Fine Guidance Sensor |
| FOC |
Faint Object Camera |
| FOOT |
Foot/Ground Reaction Forces During Spaceflight experiment |
| FOS |
Faint Object Spectrograph |
| GATV |
Gemini Agena target vehicle |
| GDR |
German Democratic Republic |
| GHRS |
Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph |
| GKNII |
Gosudarstvenny Krasnoznamenny Nauchno Issledovatelsky Institut
(State Red Banner Scientific Research Institute) |
| GKNPTs |
Gosudarstvenny Kosmichesky Nauchno-Proizvodstvenny Tsentr (State
Cosmic Research and Production Centre) |
| GLOMR |
Global Low-Orbiting Message Relay |
| GLV |
Gemini launch vehicle |
| GMK |
Glavnaya Meditsinskaya Komissiya = Main Medical Commission |
| GMVK |
Gosudarstvennaya Mezhvedomstvennaya Komissiya = State
Interdepartmental Commission |
| GNTs |
Gosudarstwenny Nauchny Tsentr = State Scientific Centre |
| GOGU |
Glavnaya Operativnaya Gruppa Upravleniya = Main Operative Control
Group |
| GPC |
General Purpose Computer |
| GPS |
Global Positioning System |
| GRO |
Gamma Ray Observatory |
| HSP |
High Speed Photometer |
| HST |
Hubble Space Telescope |
| HST-SM |
Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission |
| HUT |
Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope |
| IBSS |
Infrared Background Signature Survey |
| ICBC |
IMAX Cargo Bay Camera |
| ICC |
Integrated Cargo Carrier |
| IES |
Institut Elektrosvarki = Institute of Electric Welding |
| IIET |
Institut Istorii Estestvoznaniya i Tekhniki = Institute of the
History of Natural Sciences and Technology |
| IKI |
Institut Kosmicheskikh Issledovany (Space Research Institute) |
| IMAX |
Images maximum |
| IMBP |
Institut Mediko-Biologicheskikh Problem = Institute of
Medico-Biological Problems |
| IML |
International Microgravity Laboratory |
| IPS |
Intrument Pointing System |
| IRCFE |
Infrared Communications Flight Experiment |
| IRT |
Integrated Rendezvous Target |
| ISRO |
Indian Space Research Organisation |
| ISS |
International Space Station |
| ISS-CDR |
International Space Station Commander |
| ISSI |
In Space Soldering Investigation |
| ITS |
Integrated Truss Segment |
| IUS/SIGINT |
U.S. Air Force Inertial Upper Stage |
| IVA |
Intra Vehicular Activity |
| IZMIRAN |
Institut Zemnovo Magnetizma, Ionosfery i rasprostraneniya Radiovoln
Akademii Nauk (Institute for Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radio Propagation
of the Academy of Sciences) |
| JAXA |
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| JEM |
Japanese Experiment Module |
| JEM EF |
Japanese Experiment Module - Exposed Facility |
| JEM ELM-ES |
Japanese Experiment Module - Experiment Logistics Module Exposed
Section |
| JEM ELM PS |
Japanese Experiment Module Experiment Logistics Module Pressurized
Section |
| JEM PM |
Japanese Experiment Module Pressurized Module |
| JEM RMS |
Japanese Experiment Module Remote Manipulator System |
| JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| JSC |
Johnson Space Center |
| KB Salyut |
Konstruktorskoye Byuro Salyut = Design Bureau Salyut, Salyut =
Salutation |
| KBOM |
Konstruktorskoye Byuro Obshchego Mashinostroyeniya = General
Machine Building Design Bureau |
| KhAI |
Kharkovsky Aviatsionny Institut (Kharkov Aviation Institute) |
| KKSZh |
Kosmicheskaya Komissiya Soyuza Zhournalistov = Space Commission of
the Journalist-Union (of the USSR |
| KRT |
Kosmichesky Radioteleskop = Space Radio Telescope |
| KSC |
Kennedy Space Center |
| KVVA |
Krasnoznamennaya Voyenno-Vozdushnaya Akademiya (Red Banner Air
Force Academy) |
| LAGEOS |
Laser Geodynamic Satellite |
| LDEF |
Long Duration Exposure Facility |
| LF |
Logistics Flight |
| LGU |
Leningradsky Gosudarstvenny Universitet = Leningrad State
University |
| LIAP |
Leningradsky Institut Aviatsionnovo Priborostroyeniya (Leningrad
Institute for Aviation Instrument Building) |
| LII |
Lyetno-Isslyedovatyelskiy Institut = Flying Research Institute (of
MAP) |
| LITE |
Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment |
| LM |
Lunar Module |
| LMC |
Lightweight Multi-Purpose Experiment Support Structure Carrier |
| LMI |
Leningradsky Mekhanichesky Institut = Leningrad Mechanical Institut
|
| LMP |
Lunar Module Pilot |
| LRV |
Lunar Roving Vehicle |
| LS |
Laboratory Specialist |
| M.A.S. |
Master of Advanced Studies |
| M.B.A. |
Master of Business Administration degree |
| M.D. |
Doctorate of Medicine |
| M.S. |
Master of Science |
| MACE |
Middeck Active Control Experiment |
| MAI |
Moskovsky Aviatsionny Institut (Moscow Aviation Institute) |
| MAP |
Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoi Promuishlyennosti = Ministry of Aviation
Industries |
| MBS |
Mobile Base System |
| MEEP |
Mir Environmental Effects Payload |
| MET |
Modular Equipment Transporter |
| MFMG |
Miscible Fluids in Microgravity |
| MFTI |
Moskovsky Fisiko-Tekhnichesky Institut (Moscow Physical-Technology
Institute) |
| MGA |
Ministerstvo Grazhdanskoy Aviatsii = Ministry of Civilian Aviation
|
| MGPU |
Moskovsky Gorodskoy Pedagogichesky Universitet (Moscow City
Pedagogical University) |
| MGTU |
Moskovsky Gosudarstvenny Tekhnichesky Universitet (Moscow State
Technological University) |
| MGU |
Moskovsky Gosudarstvenny Universitet = Moscow State University |
| MISSE |
Materials International Space Station |
| MIT |
Massuachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MKF |
Mnogozonalny Fotoapparat = Multi Channel Camera, Multi Spectral
Camera |
| MKS |
Mezhdunarodnaya Kosmicheskaya Stantsiya = International Space
Station |
| MLR |
Monodisperse Latex Reactor |
| MMU |
Manned Maneuvering Unit |
| MOL |
Manned Orbiting Laboratory |
| MPEC |
Multi-Purpose Release Canister |
| MPLM |
Multipurpose Logistics Module |
| MRM |
Mini Research Module |
| MSCA |
Mir Cooperative Solar Array |
| MSE |
Military Spaceflight Engineer |
| MSFC |
Manned Spaceflight Center |
| MSG |
Microgravity Science Glovebox |
| MSL |
Microgravity Science Lab |
| MVTU |
Moskovskoye Vyssheye Tekhnicheskoye Uchilishche (Moscow Higher
Technological School) |
| MSP |
Mission Specialist |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| NASDA |
National Space Development Agency of Japan |
| NAVSPACECOM |
Naval Space Command |
| NICMOS |
Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer |
| NIIAP |
Nauchno Issledovatelsky Institut Avtomatiki i Priborostroyeniya =
Scientific Research Institute of Automatics and Instrument Building |
| NORAD |
North American Aerospace Defense Command |
| NPO |
Nauchno Proizvodstvennoye Obedineniye (Scientific Production
Association) |
| NPO Energiya |
Nauchno Proizvodstvennoye Obedineniye Energiya (Scientific
Production Association Energiya, Energiya = Energy) |
| NPO Kriogenmash |
Nauchno Proizvodstvennoye Obedineniye Kriogenmash (Scientific
Production Association Kriogenmash) |
| NPO Mash |
Nauchno Proizvodstvennoye Obedineniye Mashinostroyeniya (Scientific
Production Association Mashinostroyeniya, Mashinostroyeniya = Machine
Building) |
| NPO Molnya |
Nauchno Proizvodstvennoye Obedineniye Molniya (Scientific
Production Association Molniya, Molniya = Flash) |
| NPO VISP |
Nauchno Proizvodstvennoye Obedineniye Vsyosoyuznogo
Proyektno-Konstruktorskogo Institut Svarochnogo Proizvodstva = Scientific
Production Association named All-Union-States Project and Design Institute for
Welding Production |
| NPOE |
Nauchno Proizvodstvennoye Obedineniye Energiya = Scientific
Production Association Energiya (since 1974 the designation of the former
TsKBEM |
| NTA |
Nitrogen Tank Assembly |
| OAMS |
orbit attitude and maneuver system |
| OAST |
Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology |
| OAST-Flyer |
Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology-Flyer |
| OKB |
Opytno-Konstruktorskoye Byuro (Special Design Bureau) |
| OKP |
Obshchekosmicheskaya Podgotovka = General Space Training |
| OKPKI |
Otraslevoy Kompleks Podgotovki Kosmonavtov-Ispytateley (Branch
Complex of Test-Cosmonauts Prepearing) |
| ORFEUS |
Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet
Spectrometer |
| OSS |
Office of Space Science |
| OSTA |
Office of Space and Terrestical Applications |
| OSTS |
Office of Space Transportation Systems |
| OTD |
ORU Transfer Device |
| PAMS |
Passive Aerodynamically Stabilized Magnetically-Damped
Satellite |
| PAO |
Priborno-agregatniy otsek = Instrument and aggregate module |
| PCG |
Protein Crystal Growth |
| PCU |
Power Control Unit |
| PDB |
Plasma Diagnostics Package |
| PDP |
Parashyutno-Desantnaya Podgotovka = Parachute Landing Training |
| Ph.D. |
Doctorate of Philosphy degree |
| PLA |
Peoples Liberation Army - the China military force |
| PLAAF |
Peoples Liberation Army Air Force |
| PLT |
Pilot |
| PMA |
Pressurized Mating Adapter |
| PSP |
Payload Specialist |
| PVO |
Protivovozdushnaya Oborona = Anti Air Defense, Air Defense
Force |
| RAN |
Rossiyskaya Akademiya Nauk = Russian Academy of Sciences |
| RCA |
Radio Corporation of America |
| REBA |
Rechargeable EVA Battery Assembly |
| REP |
Radar Evaluation Pod |
| RGNII |
Rossysky Gosudarstwenny Nauchno Issledovatelsky Institut (Russian
State Scientific Research Institute) |
| RKKE |
Raketno-Kosmicheskaya Korporatsiya Energiya (Rocket and Spacecraft
Corporation Energiya, Energiya = Energy) |
| RMS |
Remote Manipulator System |
| RSC Energiya |
Rocket and Spacecraft Corporation Energiya |
| RSU |
Remote Sensing Units |
| RTLS |
Return to Launch Site |
| RVSN |
Raketnye Voiska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya = Rocket Troops for
Strategic Purpose, Strategic Rocket Force |
| RWA |
Reaction Wheel Assembly |
| SADE |
Solar Array Drive Electronics |
| SAFER |
Simplified Aid for EVA Rescue |
| SARJ |
Solar Alpha Rotary Joint |
| SBS |
Satellite Business Systems |
| Sc.D. |
Doctorate of Science |
| SDI |
Strategic Defense Initiative |
| SEEDS |
Space Exposed Experiment Developed for Students |
| SEVA |
Standup-EVA |
| SFINCSS |
Simulation of Flight of International Crew on Space Station |
| SFSR |
Soviet Federated Socialist Republic |
| SH-DM |
SPACEHAB Double-Module |
| SH-LSM |
SPACEHAB Logistics Single Module |
| SLP |
Spacelab Pallet |
| SLS |
Spacelab Life Science |
| SMD |
Shuttle Mission Development Test |
| SMDP |
Service Module Debris Protection |
| SMM |
Solar Maximum Mission |
| SPARTAN |
Shuttle Pointed Autonomous Research Tool for Astronomy |
| SPAS |
Space Pallet Satellite |
| SPD |
Spool Positioning Devices |
| SPK Ikar |
Sredstvo Peredvizheniya Kosmonavta Ikar = Cosmonaut Transportation
Unit Ikar, Ikar = Ikarus |
| SRB |
Solid Rocket Booster |
| SRL |
Space Radar Laboratory |
| SRTM |
Shuttle Radar Topography Mission |
| SS |
Spaceplane Specialist |
| SSPTS |
Station-to-Shuttle Power Transfer System |
| SSR |
Solid State Recorder |
| SSR |
Soviet Socialist Republic |
| STIS |
Space Telescope Imaging Spectograph |
| STS |
Space Transportation System |
| STU |
Satellite Test Unit |
| SWIUS |
Southwest Ultraviolet Imaging System |
| TAL |
Transatlantic Landing |
| TANG |
National Guard of Texas |
| TBS |
Tokyo Broadcasting System |
| TDRS |
Tracking and Data Relay Satellite |
| TKS |
Transportny Korabl Snabzheniya (Transport-Supply Ship) |
| TsKBEM |
Tsentralnoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Eksperimentalnogo
Mashinostroyeniya (Central Design Bureau of Experimental Machine Building) |
| TsKBM |
Tsentralnoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroyeniya (Central
Design Bureau of Machine Building) |
| TsKBMF |
Tsentralnoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Mashinostroyeniya - Fili =
Central Design Bureau of Machine Building - Fili Branch |
| TsPAT |
Tsentr Pokaza Aviatsionnoi Tekhniki = Show Centre of Aviation
Technology |
| TsPK |
Tsentr Podgotovki Kosmonavtov (Cosmonaut Training Center) |
| TSS |
Tethered Satellite System |
| TsSKB |
Tsentralnoye Spetsializirovannoye Konstruktorskoye Byuro Foton =
Central Special Design Bureau Foton, Foton = Photon |
| TsUP |
Tsentr Upravleniya Polyotam (Flight Control Center) |
| TsVNIAG |
Tsentralny Voyenny Nauchno Issledovatelsky Aviatsionny Gospital =
Central Military Scientific Research Aviation Hospital |
| TTM |
Tip-Tilt Mirror Telescope |
| UARS |
Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite |
| UCLA |
University of California-Los Angeles |
| UF |
Utilization Flight |
| UIT |
Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope |
| ULF |
Utilization and Logistics Flight |
| URI |
Universalnui Rabotschi Instrument (Universal Working Tool) |
| USAF |
United States Air Force |
| USCG |
United States Coast Guard |
| USMC |
United States Marine Corps |
| USML |
United States Microgravity Laboratory |
| USMP |
U.S. Microgravity Payload |
| USN |
United States Navy |
| USNR |
United States Navy Reserve |
| USS |
United States Ship |
| UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time = GMT = Greenwich Mean Time |
| VAB |
Vehicle Assembly Building |
| VDU |
Vynosnaya Dvigatyelnaya Ustanovka = Outer Engine Unit |
| VfW |
Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke |
| VIA |
Voyenno-Inzhenernaya Akademiya (Military Engineering Academy) |
| VIAVU |
Vyssheye Inzhenernoye Aviatsionnoye Voyennoye Uchilishche (Higher
Military Aviation School for Engineers) |
| VKIU |
Vyssheye Komandno-Inzhenernoye Uchilishche (Higher Military School
for Command-Engineers) |
| VKS |
Voyenno Kosmicheskiye Sily = Military Space Force |
| VMA |
Voyenno Morskaya Aviatsiya = Military Marine Aviation, Navy Air
Force |
| VMF |
Voyenno Morskoy Flot = Military Marine Force,
Navy |
| VNTsKh |
Vsyosoyuznogo Nauchnogo Tsentr Khirurgi = All-Union-States
Scientific Centre of Surgery |
| VTA |
Voyenno Transportnaya Aviatsiya = Military Transport Aviation, Air
Transport Force |
| VVA |
Voyenno Vozdushnaya Akademiya = Air Force Academy |
| VVAUL |
Vyssheye Voyennoye Aviatsionnoye Uchilishche Lyochikov (Higher
Military Aviation School for Pilots) |
| VVIA |
Voyenno Vozdushnaya Inzhenernaya Akademiya = Air Force Engineering
Academy |
| VVS |
Voyenno Vozdushniye Sily (Military Air Force) |
| WFPC |
Wide Field Planetary Camera |
| WSF |
Wake Shield Facility |
| WUPPE |
Wisconsin Ultraviolet Photo-Polarimeter Experiment |
