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The following is a list of acronyms used by the Microgravity Science Division listed in alphabetical order by acronym for a numerical list and letters F through L
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| FA | Flight Accommodation |
| FAR | Final Acceptance Review |
| FAWG | Flight Assignments Working Group |
| FCA | Flow Control Assembly |
| FCF | Fluids and Combustion Facility |
| FCU | FOMA Control Unit |
| FDC | Federal Data Corporation |
| FDD | Flight Data Document |
| FDE | Fluid Dynamics Experiment |
| FDF | Flight Data File |
| FDIR | Fault Detection, Isolation & Recovery |
| FDOR | Final Design and Operations Review |
| FDR | Final Design Review |
| FDSS | Fire Detection and Suppression System |
| FEA | Fluids Experiment Apparatus |
| FEA | Fluids Experiment Assembly |
| FEANICS | Flow Enclosure Accomodating Novel Investigations in Combustion of Solids |
| FEANICS/ FOMA |
Fuel Oxidizer Management Assembly |
| FEM | Finite Element Model |
| FEP | Front End Processor |
| FES | Fluids Experiment System |
| FES | Flash Evaporator System (an Orbiter subsystem) |
| FF | Free Flyer |
| FFEU | Free Float Electrophoresis Unit (Japan) |
| FFFT | Forced Flow Flamespread Test |
| FHA | Flight Hardware Availability |
| FIR | Fluids Integrated Rack |
| FIST | Flammability Diagrams of Combustible Materials in Microgravity |
| FIVE | Front Interaction with Vortex Experiment |
| FMEA | Failure Modes and Effects Analyses |
| FMEA-CIL | Failure Modes and Effects Analyses/Critical Items List |
| FMPT | First Material Processing Test (Japan) |
| FO | Functional Objectives |
| FOAM | Foam Optics and Mechanics Experiment |
| FOMA | Fuel/Oxidizer Management Assembly |
| FOR | Flight Operations Review |
| FOV | Field of View |
| FPDF | Fluid Physics/Dynamics Facility |
| FPE | Fundamental Phenomena Experimentation |
| FPSR | Fluid Physics Strategic Research |
| FRB | Failure Review Board |
| FRE | Functional Requirements Envelope |
| FRR | Flight Readiness Review |
| FS | Factor of Safety |
| FSAP | Fluid Science Avionics Package |
| FSD | Fabrication Support Division |
| FSDC | Fiber Supported Droplet Combustion |
| FSDC-3 | Fiber Supproted Droplet Combustion-3 |
| FSDM | Free Surface Deformation Measurement System |
| FSL | Fluid Science Laboratory (ESA) |
| FSS | Flight Support System |
| FSSS | Flight Segment Support System |
| FSUWG | Facility Science Users Working Group |
| FU | Flight Unit |
| FY | Fiscal Year |
| FZCGF | Float Zone Crystal Growth Facility (Battelle) |
| FZES | Float Zone Experiment System |
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| g | Gravity |
| g0 | normal gravity acceleration at sea-level |
| GaAs | Gallium Arsenide |
| GAC | Grumman Aerospace Corporation |
| GAS | Get-Away-Special |
| GAS Can | Get-Away-Special Canister |
| GBX | Glovebox (Biorack Configuration) |
| GC | Gas Cromatograph |
| GC-MS | Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer |
| GCE | Ground Control Experiment |
| GCEL | Ground Control Experiment Laboratory |
| GDFE | Gas-Jet Diffusion Flames Experiment |
| GEF | Gas Evaporation Experiment Facility (Japan) |
| GEM | Generic Experiment Module |
| GEO | Geosynchronous Earth Orbit |
| GERME | Groupe D'Etude et Recherches, Sur Test Materieux Dans L'Espace |
| GEVS | General Environmental Verification Specification |
| GFE | Government Furnished Equipment |
| GFGAS | Gradient Furnace for Get Away Special |
| GFM | Granular Flow Module |
| GFP | Glass Fiber Pulling |
| GFP | Government Furnished Property |
| GGM | Gravity and Granular Materials (Behringer) |
| GH | Growth Hormone |
| GHF | Gradient Heating Facility |
| GHF | Gradient Heating Furnace (Japan) |
| GI | Glovebox Investigations |
| GIDEP | Government/Industry Data Exchange Program |
| GIFFTS | Gravitational Influences on Flammability and Flamespread Test Systems |
| GIRD | Ground Integration Requirements Document |
| GIS | Gas Interface System |
| GIU | Ground Integration Unit |
| GMSF | Growth and Morphology of Supercritical Fluids Experiment |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |
| GN&C | Guidance, Navigation and Control |
| GOR | Ground Operations Review |
| GPC | General Purpose Computer |
| GPF-1&2 | General Purpose Furnace |
| GPRF-G | General Purpose Rocket Furnace-Gradient |
| GPRF-I | General Purpose Rocket Furnace -Isothermal |
| GPS | Global Position Satellite |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GPU | Ground Power Unit |
| GRC | Glenn Research Center |
| GSE | Ground Support Equipment |
| GSFC | Goddard Space Flight Center |
| GT | Ground Test |
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| H/W | Hardware |
| HAB | Habitability |
| HAL | High-temperature Acoustic Levitator |
| HAL/S | High-Order Programming Language for Spacelab Usage |
| HB | High Bay |
| HCR | Hardware Concept Review |
| HDR | High Data Rate |
| HDRR | High Data Rate Recorder |
| HDW | Hardware |
| HFR | High Frame Rate |
| HGCS | Human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating |
| HGS | Holographic Ground System |
| HH-G | Hitchhiker (Goddard) |
| HH-M | Hitchhiker (MSFC) |
| HHVT | High Resolution, High Frame Rate Video Technology |
| HIA | Holographic Imaging Apparatus |
| HiBMs | High Bit Depth Multi Spectral Camera Package |
| HM | Habitation Module |
| HMF | Health Maintenance Facility |
| HOSC | Huntsville Operations Support Center |
| HPA | Handling and Positioning Aid |
| HPCG | Hand-held Protein Crystal Growth |
| HPF | Heat Pipe Furnace |
| HPIR | Heat Pipe Radiator |
| HQ | NASA Headquarters |
| HR | High Resolution |
| HRAP | Heat Rejection Augmentation Package |
| HRDL | High Rate Data Link |
| HRF | Human Research Facility |
| HRM | High Rate Multiplexer |
| HTFT | High Temperature Furnace Technology |
| HTGPF | High Temperature General Purpose Furnace |
| HTM | High Temperature Materials |
| HTT | High Temperature Thermostat |
| HTT-SCU1 | High Temperature Thermostat Sample Cell Unit 1 |
| HTT-SCU2 | High Temperature Thermostat Sample Cell Unit 2 |
| HW | Hardware |
| HX | Heat Exchanger |
| Hz | Hertz (Cycles per Second) |
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| I&O | Integration and Operations |
| IAMS | Image Acquisition Module |
| IAO | International Announcement of Opportunity |
| IBSE | Initial Blood Storage Experiment |
| ICD | Interface Control Document |
| ICD | Interface Control Drawing |
| ICE | Interface Configuration Experiment |
| ICR | Investigation Continuation Review |
| IDE | Initial Design Evaluation |
| IDGE | Isothermal Dendrite Growth Experiment |
| IDMS | Information and Data Management System |
| IEF | Isoelectric Focusing Experiment |
| IF | Intermediate Frequency |
| IFF | Isoelectric Focusing Facility |
| IFM | Interface Measurements |
| IG | Igloo (Spacelab Pallet Missions) |
| IGI | Industrial Guest Investigator |
| IH/SR | Integration Hardware/Software Review |
| IHF | Isothermal (Japan) |
| II | Industrial Investigator |
| IIA | Instrument Interface Agreements |
| IM | Interface Measurements |
| IMF | Image Furnace (Japan) |
| IML | International Microgravity Laboratory |
| IMU | Inertial Measurement Unit |
| INEPT | EN Engineering Panel Telemail |
| InSPACE | Investigating the Structur of Paramagnet Aggregates from Colloidal Emulsions |
| IOC | Initial Operating Capability |
| IOC | Initial Orbiting Capability |
| IOP | Input/Output Processor |
| IOU | Input/Output Unit |
| IPL | Integrated Payload |
| IPP | Image Processing Package |
| IPRD | Integrated Payload Requirements Document |
| IPS | Instrument Pointing System |
| IPSU | Image Processing and Storage Unit |
| IR | Infrared |
| IR&D | Independent Research and Development |
| IRD | Interface Requirements Document |
| IRIG | Inter-range instrumentation group (time format in Spacelab) |
| IRR | Integration Readiness Review |
| IRR | Interface Requirements Review |
| IRR | Initial Requirements Review |
| IRSM | Incubator Refrigerator Storage Module |
| ISA | Inertial Sensor Assemblies |
| ISC | International Space Corporation |
| ISET | Intercenter Systems Engineering Team |
| ISF | Industrial Space Facility |
| ISPR | International Standard Payload Rack |
| ISR | Interim Systems Review |
| ISRU | In Situ Resource Utilization |
| ISS | International Space Station |
| ISSP | Information System Strategic Plan |
| ISTF | Integrated Services and Test Facility (Canada) |
| ISY | International Space Year (1992) |
| ITA | Instrumentation Technology Associates, Inc. |
| ITCS | Internal Thermal Control System |
| ITIP | International Technology Integration Panel |
| ITUS | Integrated Thermal Utility System |
| IVA | Intravehicular Activity |
| IWG | Investigators Working Group |
| IWG | Integration Working Group |
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| JCA | Joint Cooperative Agreement |
| JEA | Joint Endeavor Agreement |
| JEM | Japanese Experiment Module |
| JIS | Joint Integration Simulation |
| JPL | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| JSC | (Lyndon B.) Johnson Space Center |
| JSLWG | Joint Spacelab Working Group |
| JURG | Joint User Requirements Group |
-K-
| K | Kelvin |
| KBPS | Kilobytes Per Second |
| kg | Kilogram |
| KO | Kick Off |
| KSC | (John F.) Kennedy Space Center |
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| LAB | LaboratorY |
| LAN | Local Area Network |
| KaRC | Langley Research Center |
| LASS | Large Amplitude Space Simulator |
| LBFT | Langmuir-Blodgett Trough Facility |
| LCPMC | Lead Center Program Management Council |
| LDEF | Long Duration Exposure Facility |
| LDF | Liquid Drop Experiment Facility (Japan) |
| LDR | Large Deployable Reflector |
| LDR | Low Data Rate |
| LDV | Laser Doppler Velocimeter |
| LDV | Laser Doppler Velocimetry |
| LED | Light Emitting Diode |
| LEO | Low Earth Orbit |
| LeRC | Lewis Research Center |
| LF-X | Logistics Flight |
| LIF | Large Isothermal Furnace (JAPAN) |
| LIMS | Lewis Information Management System |
| LLL | Low Light Level |
| LLSI | Laser Light Scattering Instrument |
| LM | Logistics Module |
| LME | Liquid Motion Experiment |
| LMI | Lewis Management Instruction |
| LMM | Light Microscopy Module |
| LFCA | Low Volume Fraction Colloidal Assemblies Experiment |
| LOS | Loss of Signal |
| LOS | Line of Sight |
| LPE | Lamda Point Experiment |
| LPES | Lamda Point Experiment System |
| LPS | Liquid Phase Sintering |
| LPS | Launch Processing System |
| LRDL | Low Rate Data Link |
| LS | Life Sciences |
| LSA | Large Space Antenna |
| LSE | Laboratory Support Equipment |
| LSLAB | Life Sciences Laboratory |
| LSP | Laminar Soot Processes |
| LSRF | Life Sciences Research Facility |
| LSSP | Launch Site Support Plan |
| LSW | Lifshitz, Slyozov and Wagner (Theory of Alloys) |
| LTE | Levitator Technology Experiment (ACES II) |
| LTGHE | Low-Temperature Gradient Heating Furnace |
| LTRF | Low Temperature Research Facility |
| LVLH | Local Vertical, Local Horizontal |
| LVLH | Local Vertical, Local Horizontal Meter |
