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THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF
SPACE
EXPLORATION
AND DISASTERS
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Constable & Robinson Ltd
3 The Lanchesters
162 Fulham Palace Road
London W69ER
www.constablerobinson.com
First published in the UK by Robinson,
an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd 2005
Collection and editorial material
copyright Richard Russell Lawrence 2005
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
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ISBN 1-84119-963-X
eISBN 978-1-78033-366-3
Printed and bound in the EU
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Abbreviations
| Chapter 1 | |
| A-4 | Aggregate 4, the prototype German rocket |
| LOX | Liquid Oxygen |
| NACA | National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| V-2 | Vergeltungswaffe 2 (Vengeance weapon 2) |
| Chapter 2 | |
| ASCS | Automatic Stabilization and Control System |
| EOR | Earth Orbit Rendezvous |
| G | Gravity, normal gravity on earth is IG |
| ICBM | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| LOR | Lunar Orbit Rendezvous |
| LOS | Loss Of Signal |
| LOX | Liquid Oxygen |
| MA | Mercury-Atlas |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MPT | Mercury Procedures Trainer |
| M-R | Mercury Redstone |
| Q | Aerodynamic stress |
| SARAH | Search and Rescue and Homing |
| SECO | Sustainer Engine Cutoff |
| V-1 | Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Vengeance weapon 1) |
| VfR | Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt (Space Travel Association) |
| USSR | Union of Socialist Soviet Republics |
| Chapter 3 | |
| ALSEP | Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package |
| AM | Airlock Module |
| AMU | Astronaut Manoeuvring Unit |
| ATDA | Augmented Target Docking Adapter |
| Capcom | Capsule communicator |
| CONTROL | Lunar Module flight control officer |
| CSM | Command Service Module |
| DOI | Descent orbit insertion |
| DSKY | Display & Keyboard |
| EECOM | Electrical & Environmental command officer |
| EGIL | Flight Controller for electrical and environmental systems at the launch |
| EST | Eastern Standard Time |
| EVA | Extra Vehicular Activity or spacewalking |
| FDI | powered descent initiation |
| FIDO | Flight dynamics officer |
| GET | Ground Elapsed Time |
| GNC | Guidance, Navigation and Control |
| GUIDO | Guidance officer |
| INCO | Instrument & Communications Officer |
| J-2 | engine of the Saturn booster S-IVB third stage |
| LEM | Lunar Excursion Module |
| LLRV | Lunar Landing Research Vehicle |
| LM | Lunar Module |
| LOI | Lunar orbit insertion |
| LRL | Lunar Receiving Laboratory |
| MDA | Multiple Docking Adapter |
| MET | Modularised Equipment Transporter |
| PC+2 | Two hours after Perycynthion (the closest point to the far side of the moon) |
| PLS S | portable life support system |
| PTC | Passive Thermal Control |
| RETRO | Retrofire officer |
| S1C | a variant of the Saturn booster (first stage) |
| SII | Saturn booster (second stage) |
| S-IVB | a variant of the Saturn booster (third stage) |
| S-WB | the Saturn stage which contained the LEM |
| SCE | Signal Condition Equipment |
| SM JETT | Service Module Jettison (switch) |
| SPS | Service Propulsion System (the CSMs engine) |
| SWS | Saturn Workshop (Skylab) |
| TEI | TransEarth Injection |
| TELMU | Telemetry, electrical, EVA, mobility unit officer |
| Chapter 4 | |
| BPS | Automatic docking equipment on board MIRs unmanned supply vessels |
| CCD | Charged Coupled Detectors |
| COSTAR | Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement |
| DSD | a Depressurization Sensor |
| FA | First Aid |
| HST | Hubble Space Telescope |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| IVA |
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