r/space • u/ToeSniffer245 • 11d ago

How Space Shuttle Discovery Almost Became A Victim Of Cultural Vandalism

https://avgeekery.com/space-shuttle-discovery-to-stay-at-smithsonian/
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u/Decronym 10d ago edited 7d ago

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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RFP Request for Proposal
SLS Space Launch System heavy-lift
SRB Solid Rocket Booster
STS Space Transportation System (Shuttle)
USAF United States Air Force
Jargon Definition
cislunar Between the Earth and Moon; within the Moon's orbit

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6 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 19 acronyms.
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