Why Acronyms Seriously Suck - 8.26

3,185 views · Published 13 September 2015 · 46:13 · Indexed 22 September 2026

Channel: Project TMRO · 2015 · Science & Technology

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This week we explore our policy on no acronyms and make the case for eliminating their general usage when trying to explain aerospace to others.

In Space News we have:
* Secret China Launch
* Galileo launch o Soyuz
* Aerojet Rocketdyne bidding to buy United Launch Alliance for $2bn
* Boeing renames CST-100 (Crew Space Transportation) to ‘CST-100 Starliner’
* Firefly Space Systems tests rocket engine
* SpaceX released beautiful vidoes of Crew Dragon interior
* New Horizons starting data dump


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