appendicies

Below is a list of acronyms commonly encountered or most likely used throughout the transcripts.

AB -
AEA -
AGS -
ALFMED -
ALHT -
ALSCC -
ALSD -
ALSE -
ALSEP -
AOS -
AOT -
AP -
APS -
 
ARIA -
ARS -
ASE -
ATCA -
BEF -
BMAG -
BSLSS -
BUSS -
CC -
CCGE/CCIG -
CDH -
CDR -
CM -
CMC -
CMP -
COAS -
CP -
CRD -
CSC -
CSI -
CSM -
CT -
CWEA -
DAC -
DAP -
DEDA -
DET -
DOI -
DPS -
DRT -
DSE -
DSEA -
DSKY -
DTO -
ECS -
EI -
EMS -
EMU -
EPS -
ETB -
EVA -
EVT -
FD -
FDAI -
FDO -
FUS -
G&C -
GCTA -
GDC -
GDO -
GET -
GETI -
GUAD -
HGA -
HFE -
HORNET -
HTC -
IMU -
IP -
IPI -
ISA -
ISR -
IU -
IVT -
IWO -
LACE -
LAD -
LCC -
LCG -
LCRU -
LEAM -
LEB -
LEC -
LEVA -
LM -
LMGC -
LMP -
LNP -
LOI -
LOPC -
LOS -
LPD -
LRRR -
LRV -
LSM -
LSG -
LSPE -
LTC -
LTG -
MC -
MCC -

MEED -
MESA -
MET -
MS -
MSFN -
MTVC -
NEW -
OID -
OKI -
OPS -
ORDEAL -
P-1, P-2, etc. -
PC -
PDI -
PGA -
PGNCS -
PGNS -
PI -
PIPA -
PLSS -
PRD -
PRINCE -
PSE -
PTC -
R -
R-1, R-2, etc. -
RCS -
RCU -
REFSMMAT -
RLS -
RTG -
S -
S-1, S-2, etc. -
SA -
SBT -
SC -
SCE -
SCS -
SECS -
SEF -
SEP -
SEQ -
SIDE -
SIM -
SLA -
SM -
SME -
SNAP -
SPS -
SRC -
SWC -
SWE -
SWS -
TDS -
TEC -
TEI -
T (ephem) -
T (ig) -
TIC -
TLC -
TLI -
TPF -
TPI -
TSB -
TVC -
UHF -
UHT -
VHF -

Airboss (recovery aircraft)
Abort electronics assembly
Abort guidance system
Apollo light-flash moving-emulsion detector
Apollo lunar hand tool
Apollo lunar-surface closeup camera
Apollo lunar-surface drill
Apollo lunar sounder experiment
Apollo lunar-surface experiments package
Acquisition of signal (or of site)
Alignment optical telescope
Alpha particle (spectrometer)
Auxiliary propulsion system (S-IVB) or
ascent propulsion system (LM)
Apollo range instrumentation aircraft
Atmosphere revitalization system
Active seismic experiment
Attitude/translation control assembly
Blunt end forward
Body-mounted attitude gyro
Buddy secondary life-support system
Biomedical urine sampling system
Capsule Communicator (CAPCOM)
Cold cathode gauge experiment/cold cathode ion gauge
Constant delta altitude (height)
Commander
Command module
Command module computer
Command module pilot
Crew optical alignment sight
Control point
Cosmic ray detector (experiment)
Close-up stereo camera or contingency sample collection
Coelliptic sequence initiation
Command and service module
Communications technician (COMM TECH)
Caution and warning electronics assembly
Data acquisition camera
Digital autopilot
Data entry and display assembly
Digital event timer
Descent orbit insertion
Descent propulsion system
Dome removal tool
Data storage equipment (CM)
Data storage electronics assembly (LM)
Display and keyboard
Detailed test objective
Environmental control system
Entry interface
Entry monitor system
Extravehicular mobility unit
Electrical power system
Equipment transfer bag
Extravehicular activity
Extravehicular transfer
Flight director
Flight director attitude indicator
Flight dynamics officer
Far-ultraviolet spectrometer
Guidance and control
Ground-command television assembly
Gyro display coupler
Guidance dynamics officer
Ground elapsed time
Ground-elapsed time of ignition
USS Guadalcanal
High-gain antenna
Heat flow experiment
USS Hornet
Handtool carrier
Inertial measurement unit
Initial point
Integrated position indicator
Interim stowage assembly
Infrared scanning radiometer
Instrument unit
Intravehicular transfer
USS Iwo Jima
Lunar atmospheric composition experiment
Lunar atmosphere detector
Launch control center
Liquid-cooled garment
Lunar communications relay unit
Lunar ejecta and meteorite (experiment)
Lower equipment bay
Lunar equipment conveyor
Lunar extravehicular visor assembly
Lunar module
Lunar module guidance computer
Lunar module pilot
Lunar neutron probe (experiment)
Lunar orbit insertion
Lunar orbit plane change
Loss of signal (or of site)
Landing point designator
Laser ranging retroreflector (also LR cubed)
Lunar roving vehicle
Lunar surface magnetometer
Lunar surface gravimeter
Lunar seismic profiling experiment
Lunar topographic camera
Lunar traverse gravimeter (experiment)
Mapping camera
Unidentified speaker, other than CC, in the
Mission Operations Control Room or a Staff Support Room
Microbial ecology evaluation device
Module equipment stowage assembly
Mission event timer
Multiple speakers
Manned spaceflight network
Manual thrust vector control
USS New Orleans
Octal identifier
USS Okinawa
Oxygen purge system
Orbital rate display earth and lunar
Photographic helicopters
Panoramic camera
Powered descent initiation
Pressure garment assembly
Primary guidance, navigation and control system (CM)
Primary guidance and navigation system (LM)
Principal investigator
Pulsed integrating pendulous accelerometer
Portable life-support system
Personal radiation dosimeter
USS Princeton
Passive seismic experiment
Passive thermal control
Recovery helicopter
Recovery helicopters
Reaction control system
Remote control unit
Reference to stable member matrix
Radius of landing site
Radioisotopic thermoelectric generator
Surgeon
Swim teams
Stupid acronym
S-band transponder
Unidentified crewmember
Signal-conditioning equipment
Stabilization control system
Sequential events control system
Sharp end forward
Surface electric properties (experiment)
Scientific equipment bay
Suprathermal ion detector experiment
Scientific instrument module
SM/LM adapter
Service module
Soil mechanics experiment
Systems for nuclear auxiliary power
Service propulsion system
Sample return container
Solar-wind composition
Solar wind experiment
Solar-wind spectrometer
Thermal degradation sample
Transearth coast
Transearth injection
Time of ephemeris
Time of ignition
USS Ticonderoga
Translunar coast
Translunar injection
Terminal phase final
Terminal phase initiation
Temporary stowage bag
Thrust vector control
Ultrahigh frequency
Universal handtool
Very high frequency


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