ABM

= antiballistic missile

ACTS

= advanced communications technology satellite

ASAT

= antisatellite

ASTP

= Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

ATV

= Automated Transfer Vehicle

AU

= astronomical unit

CASC

= China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

CETEX

= Committee on Contamination by Extraterrestrial Exploration

CHM

= common heritage of mankind

CNAA

= China National Aerospace Administration

CNES

= Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales

CO ₂

= carbon dioxide

COMEST

= Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology

COPUOS

= Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

COSPAR

= Committee on Space Research

COSTIND

= Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence

CSM

= Command and Service Module

DART

= Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology

DoD

= Department of Defense

EELV

= Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle

ERTS

= Earth Resources Technology Satellite

ESA

= European Space Agency

ESOC

= European Space Operations Centre

ESTEC

= European Space Technology Centre

EVA

= extravehicular activity

FAA

= Federal Aviation Administration

FAI

= F d ration A ronautique Internationale

FCC

= Federal Communications Commission

FOBS

= Fractional Orbital Bombardment Satellite

GEO

= geostationary orbit

GMD

= ground-based midcourse defense

GMT

= Greenwich Mean Time

GPS

= Global Positioning System

HAPS

= Hydrazine Auxiliary Propulsion System

HEO

= high Earth orbits /highly elliptical orbits

HEPA

= High-Efficiency Particulate Arrestor

HGS

= Hughes Global Services

HST

= Hubble Space Telescope

IAA

= International Academy of Astronautics

IADC

= Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee

IAF

= International Astronautical Federation

IAU

= International Astronomical Union

ICBM

= intercontinental...