The following is a partial listing of the acronyms found in the Finding Aid and Records of the Space Telescope Science Institute. See additional acronym lists found in the collection in Box 59.

<abbr>A&V</abbr>

Assembly and Verification

<abbr>AA</abbr>

Academic Affairs Division

<abbr>AAS</abbr>

American Astronomical Society

<abbr>AC</abbr>

Advanced Camera

<abbr>ACS</abbr>

Advanced Camera for Surveys

<abbr>ADS</abbr>

Astrophysics Data System

<abbr>AEDP</abbr>

Astrometry and Engineering Data Processing system

<abbr>AO</abbr>

Announcement of Opportunity

<abbr>ASTIS</abbr>

Astronomy Information Service

<abbr>AURA</abbr>

Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.

<abbr>BRAVO</abbr>

Back-end Redesign for Added Value for Observers

<abbr>C&DH</abbr>

Control & Data Handling

<abbr>C&Rs</abbr>

Complaints and Restrictions

<abbr>CAL</abbr>

Calibration

<abbr>CALACS</abbr>

Calibration Pipeline Software for ACS

<abbr>CAMA</abbr>

Committee for AURA Management Assessment

<abbr>CARD</abbr>

Complaints and Restrictions Document

<abbr>CCC</abbr>

Charge Coupled Device

<abbr>CDBS</abbr>

Calibration Data Base Software (or System)

<abbr>CMQA</abbr>

Configuration Management and Quality Assurance Branch

<abbr>CMR</abbr>

Configuration Management Requirements

<abbr>COB </abbr>

Computer Operations Branch

<abbr>COS</abbr>

Cosmic Origins Spectrograph

<abbr>COSTAR</abbr>

Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement

<abbr>CSC</abbr>

Computer Sciences Corporation

<abbr>DADS</abbr>

Data Archive and Distribution Service

<abbr>DCF</abbr>

Data Capture Facility

<abbr>DDRF</abbr>

Director's Discretionary Research Fund

<abbr>DLF</abbr>

Director's Leadership Forum

<abbr>DMF</abbr>

Data Management Facility

<abbr>DMS</abbr>

Data Management Subsystem

<abbr>DO</abbr>

Director's Office

<abbr>DRD</abbr>

Data Requirements Document

<abbr>DSD</abbr>

Data Systems Division

<abbr>DSOB</abbr>

Data System Operations Branch

<abbr>ECF</abbr>

European Coordinating Facility

<abbr>EGSE</abbr>

Electrical Ground Support Equipment

<abbr>EPAO</abbr>

Educational and Public Affairs Office

<abbr>ERO</abbr>

Early Release Observations

<abbr>ESA</abbr>

European Space Agency

<abbr>ESB</abbr>

Engineering Support Branch

<abbr>ESO</abbr>

European Southern Observatory

<abbr>ESS</abbr>

Engineering and Software Services

<abbr>ESTE</abbr>

Electrical Support Test Equipment

<abbr>EVA</abbr>

Extra Vehicular Activities

<abbr>FGS</abbr>

Fine Guidance System or Fine Guidance Sensor

<abbr>FHST/RSU</abbr>

Fixed-Head Star Tracker/Rate Sensing Unit

<abbr>FITS</abbr>

Flexible Image Transport System

<abbr>FOC</abbr>

Faint Object Camera

<abbr>FOS</abbr>

Faint Object Spectrograph

<abbr>FTE</abbr>

Full Time Equivalent

<abbr>GASP</abbr>

GSSS Archive Support Project

<abbr>GASP</abbr>

GSSS Astrometric Support Program

<abbr>GHRS</abbr>

Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph

<abbr>GMS</abbr>

Grants Management System

<abbr>GO</abbr>

General Observer

<abbr>GSC</abbr>

Guide Star Catalog

<abbr>GSFC</abbr>

Goddard Space Flight Center

<abbr>GSSS</abbr>

Guide Star Selection System

<abbr>GSSSS</abbr>

Guide Star Selection System Specification

<abbr>GST</abbr>

Ground Systems Test

<abbr>GTO</abbr>

Guaranteed Time Observation/Observer

<abbr>HDF</abbr>

Hubble Deep Field

<abbr>HF</abbr>

Hubble Fellow

<abbr>HLA</abbr>

Hubble Legacy Archive

<abbr>HOPR</abbr>

HST Observation Problem Report

<abbr>HOSC</abbr>

Huntsville Operations Support Center

<abbr>HRS</abbr>

High Resolution Spectrograph

<abbr>HSP</abbr>

High Speed Photometer

<abbr>HST</abbr>

Hubble Space Telescope

<abbr>HSTAR</abbr>

Hubble Space Telescope Anomaly Report

<abbr>ICD</abbr>

Interface Control Document

<abbr>IDI</abbr>

Image Display Interfaces

<abbr>IDT</abbr>

Instrument Development Team

<abbr>IDTs</abbr>

Image-Dissector Tubes

<abbr>IGI</abbr>

Interactive Graphics Interpreter

<abbr>IIVC</abbr>

Interim Institute Visiting Committee

<abbr>INS</abbr>

Instruments Department

<abbr>IR</abbr>

Infrared

<abbr>IRAF</abbr>

Image Reduction and Analysis Facility

<abbr>ISDB</abbr>

Information Systems Development Branch

<abbr>ISR</abbr>

Instrument Science Report

<abbr>IVC</abbr>

Institute Visiting Committee

<abbr>JPL</abbr>

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

<abbr>JSR</abbr>

Job Summary Report

<abbr>JWST</abbr>

James Webb Space Telescope

<abbr>LINERs</abbr>

Low Ionization Nuclear Emission-line Regions

<abbr>LMSC</abbr>

Lockheed Missile and Space Company

<abbr>MAMA</abbr>

Multi-Anode Microchannel Array

<abbr>MAST</abbr>

Multimission Archive at Space Telescope

<abbr>MGSE</abbr>

Mechanical Ground Support Equipment

<abbr>MOC</abbr>

Mission Operations Contractor

<abbr>MOGS</abbr>

Mission Operations Ground System

<abbr>MOSES</abbr>

Mission Operations, Systems Engineering, and Software

<abbr>MSFC</abbr>

Marshall Space Flight Center

<abbr>MSTE</abbr>

Mechanical Support Test Equipment

<abbr>NASA</abbr>

National Aeronautics Space Administration

<abbr>NEMS</abbr>

NASA Equipment Management System

<abbr>NGST</abbr>

Next Generation Space Telescope

<abbr>NICMOS</abbr>

Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer

<abbr>NOAO</abbr>

National Optical Astronomy Observatories

<abbr>NSBRI</abbr>

National Space Biomedical Research Institute

<abbr>NSSC-1</abbr>

NASA Standard Spacecraft Computer, model 1

<abbr>OBS</abbr>

Organization Breakdown Structure

<abbr>OCS</abbr>

Optical Control System

<abbr>OPD</abbr>

Operations and Data Management Department

<abbr>OPO</abbr>

Operations Project Office

<abbr>OPS</abbr>

Operations Division

<abbr>OPS</abbr>

Operations Support System

<abbr>OSDB</abbr>

Orbital Status Display Board

<abbr>OSG</abbr>

Observatory Support Group

<abbr>OSS</abbr>

Observation Support System

<abbr>OSSETT</abbr>

OSS Enhancement Turnover Test

<abbr>OTA</abbr>

Optical Telescope Assembly

<abbr>OV</abbr>

Orbital Verification

<abbr>PASS</abbr>

POCC Application Software Support

<abbr>PCS</abbr>

Pointing Control System

<abbr>PDA</abbr>

Photon Detector Assembly

<abbr>PDB</abbr>

Project Data Base

<abbr>PEP</abbr>

Proposal Entry Processor

<abbr>POCC</abbr>

Payload Operations Control Center

<abbr>PODPS</abbr>

Post Observation Data Processing System

<abbr>POP</abbr>

Program Operating Plan

<abbr>PORTS</abbr>

Preliminary Operations Requirements and Test Support

<abbr>PRESTO</abbr>

Project to Re-Engineer Space Telescope Observing

<abbr>RA</abbr>

Research Assistant

<abbr>RID</abbr>

Review Item Discrepancy

<abbr>RIUs</abbr>

Remote Interface Units

<abbr>rms</abbr>

root mean square

<abbr>RPSS</abbr>

Remote Proposal Submission System

<abbr>RSAC</abbr>

Research Support Advisory Committee

<abbr>RSB</abbr>

Research Support Branch

<abbr>RSDP</abbr>

Routine Science Data Processing

<abbr>RSLB</abbr>

Research Support and Laboratories Branch

<abbr>RWA</abbr>

Reaction Wheel Assembly

<abbr>S/W</abbr>

Software

<abbr>SAA</abbr>

South Atlantic Anomaly

<abbr>SADE</abbr>

Solar Array Drive Electronics

<abbr>SADR</abbr>

System Audit and Design Review

<abbr>SAO</abbr>

Science Assessment Observations

<abbr>SBSDB</abbr>

Small Business & Small Disadvantaged Businesses

<abbr>SCARS</abbr>

Science Computing and Research Support Division

<abbr>ScIF</abbr>

STScI Facility

<abbr>SCS</abbr>

Standard Calibration Sources

<abbr>SDASFS</abbr>

Science Data Analysis Software Functional Specification

<abbr>SESD</abbr>

Science and Engineering Systems Division

<abbr>SI</abbr>

Science Instrument

<abbr>SIB</abbr>

Science Instruments Branch

<abbr>SIRTF</abbr>

Space Infra-Red Telescope Facility

<abbr>SMOV</abbr>

Servicing Mission Observatory Verification

<abbr>SMS</abbr>

Science Mission Specification

<abbr>SOB</abbr>

Science Operations Branch

<abbr>SOGS</abbr>

Science Operations Ground System

<abbr>SOW</abbr>

Statement of Work

<abbr>SPB</abbr>

Science Programs Branch or Science Planning Branch

<abbr>SPD</abbr>

Science Programs Division

<abbr>SPRs</abbr>

Software Problem Reports

<abbr>SPSO</abbr>

Science Program Selection Office

<abbr>SPSS</abbr>

Science Planning and Scheduling System

<abbr>SRD</abbr>

Software Requirements Document

<abbr>SS</abbr>

Support Software

<abbr>SSB</abbr>

Science Software Branch

<abbr>SSD</abbr>

Science Support Division

<abbr>SSG</abbr>

Science Software Group

<abbr>STScI</abbr>

Space Telescope Science Institute

<abbr>ST-ECF</abbr>

Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility

<abbr>STAC</abbr>

Space Telescope Advisory Committee

<abbr>STIC</abbr>

Space Telescope Institute Council

<abbr>STIS</abbr>

Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph

<abbr>STOCC</abbr>

Space Telescope Operations Control Center

<abbr>STOMS</abbr>

Space Telescope Observatory Management System

<abbr>STOPAT</abbr>

Space Telescope Observatory Performance and Assessment Team

<abbr>STP-G</abbr>

Space Telescope Project - Goddard

<abbr>STSDAS</abbr>

Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System

<abbr>STSOP</abbr>

Space Telescope Science & Operations Project

<abbr>STUC</abbr>

Space Telescope Users Committee

<abbr>SV</abbr>

Science Verification

<abbr>SWG</abbr>

Science Working Group

<abbr>SYNPHOT</abbr>

synthetic photometry (package for STSDAS that runs with IRAF)

<abbr>TA</abbr>

Target Acquisition

<abbr>TAC</abbr>

Telescope Allocation Committee

<abbr>TAC</abbr>

Time Allocation Committee

<abbr>TACOS</abbr>

TAC Operations Support (part of PEP)

<abbr>TDRSS</abbr>

Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System

<abbr>TIB</abbr>

Telescope and Instruments Branch

<abbr>TIPS</abbr>

Telescope and Instruments Performance Summary

<abbr>TS</abbr>

Telescope Systems

<abbr>TTRB</abbr>

Telescope Time Review Board

<abbr>UKIRT</abbr>

United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope

<abbr>USB</abbr>

User Support Branch

<abbr>UV</abbr>

Ultraviolet

<abbr>WBS</abbr>

Work Breakdown Structure

<abbr>WF/PC</abbr>

Wide-Field and Planetary Camera

<abbr>WFC</abbr>

Wide Field Camera