Ah, the perfect spot to talk about weird stuff in the aerospace vocabulary.
LMAO - Lockheed Martin Astronautics Operations (I found this in a c2006 Atlas V Mission Planner's Guide)
SOB - Squadron Operations Building (ibid.; the US Air Force looks after range safety.)
Erect and mate procedure - Delta/Delta II terminology for the process of lifting a canned satellite to the top of a launch vehicle and bolting it to the launch vehicle adapter. Seriously, word for word, they called it the "erect and mate procedure."
Not About Space Anymore. Not Another Seven Astronauts. Never About Space Again. Nixon Annihilated Space Agency. Never A Straight An- ...oh yeah, that's yours. My usual username between 2003 and 2009 was "aftercolumbia" for After Columbia Project. had a site at aftercolumbia.tripod.com - which is crappier than I seem to remember, lol (and I lost the password.)
I can't wait for the African American hole or BIPOC hole nomenclature.
Gone are BLACK BOARDS and WHITE BOARDS. Now we have Melanin Boards and Evil Cracker Boards!
The Chocolate Milky Way fits.
Ah, the perfect spot to talk about weird stuff in the aerospace vocabulary.
LMAO - Lockheed Martin Astronautics Operations (I found this in a c2006 Atlas V Mission Planner's Guide)
SOB - Squadron Operations Building (ibid.; the US Air Force looks after range safety.)
Erect and mate procedure - Delta/Delta II terminology for the process of lifting a canned satellite to the top of a launch vehicle and bolting it to the launch vehicle adapter. Seriously, word for word, they called it the "erect and mate procedure."
Hilarious.. Tell me you've heard of NASA - Never A Straight Answer
Not About Space Anymore. Not Another Seven Astronauts. Never About Space Again. Nixon Annihilated Space Agency. Never A Straight An- ...oh yeah, that's yours. My usual username between 2003 and 2009 was "aftercolumbia" for After Columbia Project. had a site at aftercolumbia.tripod.com - which is crappier than I seem to remember, lol (and I lost the password.)
Non-binary Androgynous Space Activists.
No Anglos Specified Anymore, evidently :-D
Space must be anti-racist
Affirmative Action will have Blacks in space next launch. NASA is replacing Tang with grape Kool-Aid!