ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

• ALS - Advanced Launch System
• ARC - Ames Research Center
• ATS - Access to Space
• BIT - Built-in Test
• BITE - Built-in Test Equipment
• DDT&E - Design, Development, Test and Evaluation
• DoD - Department of Defense
• EMA - Electro-Mechanical Actuator
• GEO - Geostationary Earth Orbit
• GSE - Ground Support Equipment
• GTO - GEO Transfer Orbit
• HEO - High Earth Orbit
• KSC - Kennedy Space Center
• LEO - Low Earth Orbit
• MSFC - Marshall Space Flight Center
• NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• NLS - National Launch System
• OELS - Operationally Efficient Launch Site Study
• OEPSS - Operationally Efficient Propulsion System Study
• OSTP - Office of Science and Technology Policy
• QFD - Quality Function Deployment
• RLV - Reusable Launch Vehicle
• RLV TD&D - RLV Technology Development and Demonstration
• SGOE/TS - Shuttle Ground Operations Efficiencies/Technologies Study
• SPSG - Space Propulsion Synergy Group
• STAS - Space Transportation Architecture Study
• STS - Space Transportation System
• TBD - To Be Determined
• TBS - To Be Supplied
• VHM - Vehicle Health Management

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Edgar Zapata, NASA Kennedy Space Center

Shuttle Process Engineering Directorate, Fluid Systems Division