Abbreviations and Acronyms 



AIBS 



AO 



ARC 



CDSF 



CELSS 



CERV 



CNES 



( RAF 



DFRF 

 DFVLR 



DOD 



DOE 



DSO 



E(r) 



I LV 



EOS 



EPA 



ESA 



EUE 



EVA 



g 

 GCR 



I IMF 



HZE 



IGBP 



IOC 



I PA 



IsM 



JSC 



KSC 



LEO 



LET 



LSLE 



LSSPSC 



MOP 



MS1S 



NAC 



NAS 



NASDA 



NASP 



Mil 



NOAA 



NSF 



OCP 

 OMB 



OSF 

 OSSA 

 OTV 

 PM( 



psi 



R&T 

 RBI- 

 KIM 



RNA 

 RTOP 



American Institute of Biological Sciences 

 Announcement of Opportunity 



Research Center 

 Commercially Developed Space Facility 

 c ontrolled Ecological Lite Support Systems 

 Crew Emergency Return vehicle 

 Centre National a"Etudes Spatiales (National Cen- 

 ter for Space Studies-French) 

 Comet Rendezvous and Asteroid IK by 

 Dryden Flight Research Facility 

 Deutsche Forschungs- and Versuchsanstalt fuer 

 [ ufi und Raumfahrt (German Research and 

 Development Institute for Air and Space Travi 1) 

 Department of Defense 

 Department of Energy 

 I Vtailed Supplementary Objective 

 Earth radius 



ridable launch vehicle 

 Earth Observing System 

 Environmental Protection Agency 



space Agency 

 Experiment Unique Hardware 

 Extravehicular activity 

 Gravit\ 



Galactic cosmic rays 

 i ieosynchronous Earth orbit 

 Health Maintenance Facility 

 High atomic number, Z, and high energy, E 

 International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme 



Initial Operating Configuration 



Intergovernmental Personnel Act 



Interstellar medium 



Johnson Space (.enter 



Kennedy Space Center 



Low Earth orbit 



linear energy transfer 



Life Sciences Laboratory Equipment 



Life Sciences Strategic Planning Study Committee 

 iowave Observing Projei I 



Man-Systems Integration Standards 



NASA Advisors 1 Council 



National Academy of Sciences 



National Space Development Agency ol |apan 



National Aerospace Plane 



National Institutes ol Health 



National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 



National Science Foundation 



Ofh mautics and Space lechm 



Office of Commercial Programs 



Offii igement and Budget 



Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle 



Office Flight 



Office ol Spao >nd Applications 



Orbital rransfer Vehicle 



Permanently Manned ( apability 

 ting Plan 

 inds per square inch 



Relative biologii eness 



Roentgen equivalent in man 



Request tor Proposals 



Ribonucleii 



Research and Technology Operating Plan 

 alized ( entei ol Research 



terrestrial Intelh: 



I Tel '■ ility 



•ill maximum .ill nations 



tellite 



• tit 



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irl lei ' 



