Facing the Heat Barrier - NASA's History Office
Facing the Heat Barrier - NASA's History Office
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GAO General Accounting <strong>Office</strong> (United States Congress)<br />
GASL General Applied Science Laboratories, Inc.<br />
GE General Electric<br />
HGS homogeneous gas sample (shock tubes)<br />
HRE Hypersonic Research Engine<br />
HXEM Hyper-X Engine Module<br />
HXFE Hyper-X Flight Engine<br />
HYWARDS Hypersonic Weapons Research and Development Supporting System<br />
IBM International Business Machines<br />
ICBM intercontinental ballistic missile<br />
IFTV Incremental Flight Test Vehicle<br />
ILRV Integrated Launch and Re-entry Vehicle<br />
ISABE International Society for Air Breathing Propulsion<br />
I sp<br />
specific impulse<br />
ISTAR Integrated System Test of an Airbreathing Rocket<br />
K degrees Kelvin<br />
LACE Liquid Air Cycle Engine<br />
L/D lift-to-drag ratio<br />
LES Large-Eddy Simulation (CFD)<br />
LH 2<br />
liquid hydrogen<br />
LSCIR Low Speed Component Integration Rig (Pratt & Whitney)<br />
LSS Low Speed System (NASP)<br />
MBB Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm<br />
MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br />
MOL Manned Orbiting Laboratory<br />
MOU Memorandum of Understanding<br />
MSC Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center)<br />
NACA National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics<br />
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration<br />
NASP National Aerospace Plane<br />
NIFTA Non-Integral Fuselage Tank Article (NASP)<br />
NMASAP NASP Materials and Structures Augmentation Program<br />
OAL Ordnance Astrophysics Laboratory<br />
OMSF <strong>Office</strong> of Manned Space Flight (NASA)<br />
P & W Pratt & Whitney<br />
POBATO propellants on board at takeoff<br />
PRIME Precision Recovery Including Maneuvering Entry<br />
PROFAC propulsive fluid accumulator<br />
PSi pounds per square inch<br />
RCC Reusable Carbon-Carbon<br />
RENE Rocket Engine Nozzle Ejector<br />
ROLS Recoverable Orbital Launch System<br />
RSI reusable surface insulation<br />
SAB Scientific Advisory Board (USAF)<br />
SAGE Semi-Automatic Ground Environment<br />
SAM Structures Assembly Model (HRE)<br />
SAMPE Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering<br />
SCRAM Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Missile (APL)<br />
SDI Strategic Defense Initiative<br />
SSME Space Shuttle Main Engine<br />
SSTO single stage to orbit<br />
SXPE Subscale Parametric Engine (NASP)<br />
TAV Trans-Atmospheric Vehicle<br />
TPS <strong>the</strong>rmal protection system<br />
TZM titanium-zirconium-molybdenum alloy<br />
USAF United States Air Force<br />
VKF Von Karman Facility (AEDC)<br />
WADC Wright Air Development Center (USAF)
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