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From: daly@masscomp.UUCP (Patrick Daly)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Acronyms
Message-ID: <1786@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 21:22:30 GMT
References: <131@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU> <1625@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: daly@masscomp.UUCP (Patrick Daly)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation, Westford MA
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In article <1625@cfa237.cfa250.harvard.edu>
mcdowell@cfa250.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:
>From article <131@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU>, by bruno@sdcc10.ucsd.EDU (Bruce W. Mohler):
>[.. request for explanation of acronyms..]
>
>STS	Space Transportation System	(the shuttle system as a whole)
>OV	Orbiter Vehicle			(OV-nnn is the serial number of a given 
>					Space Shuttle Orbiter)
>OPF	Orbiter Processing Facility	(the garage where the orbiters are

	<more definitions deleted here> 

I was pleased to see these acronyms explained. It makes reading this
newsgroup more meaningful.

I had the opportunity to visit bldg 30 at JSC (another acronym!) 2 months
ago and  was overwhelmed by the number of acronyms I encountered while in
the TFCR (oops...another! alias: Transition Flight Control Room) and also
while looking at the nameplates on the various rooms in the hallways.

At the time I mentioned to my co-worker that I wished I had a
'NASA Buzzword Dictionary' to look up some of the acronyms.

Anyone else think this would be a good thing to have ?
Any volunteers to put together and maintain the document ?
Perhaps someone could post it monthly with updates ?

I would like to see something like the above with a delimiters
between definitions so I can use a script to find and print a
given definition.