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   UBM:       Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism   
   UDMH:      Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine   
   UFO:       Unidentified Flying Object   
   UGC:       Uppsala General Catalog   
   UHF:       Ultra High Frequency   
   UIT:       Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (Astro package)   
   UKST:      United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope   
   USAF:      United States Air Force   
   USMP:      United States Microgravity Payload   
   USNO:      United States Naval Observatory   
   UT:        Universal Time (a.k.a. GMT, or Zulu Time; cf UTC)   
   UTC:       Coordinated Universal Time (subtly different from UT)   
   UV:        UltraViolet   
   UVS:       UltraViolet Spectrometer   
   VAB:       Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building)   
   VAFB:      Vandenberg Air Force Base   
   VEEGA:     Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist (Galileo flight path)   
   VHF:       Very High Frequency   
   VLA:       Very Large Array   
   VLBA:      Very Long Baseline Array   
   VLBI:      Very Long Baseline Interferometry   
   VLF:       Very Low Frequency   
   VLT:       Very Large Telescope   
   VMS:       Vertical Motion Simulator   
   VOIR:      Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM)   
   VPF:       Vertical Processing Facility   
   VRM:       Venus Radar Mapper (now called Magellan)   
   VTHL:      Vertical Takeoff Horizontal Landing   
   VTVL:      Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing   
   WD:        White Dwarf   
   WFF:       Wallops Flight Facility   
   WFPC:      Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on HST)   
   WFPCII:    Replacement for WFPC   
   WIYN:      Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / NOAO telescope   
   WR:        Western Range (was WTR)   
   WSF:       Wake Shield Facility   
   WSMR:      White Sands Missile Range   
   WTR:       Western Test Range   
   WUPPE:     Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment (Astro package)   
   XMM:       X-ray Multi Mirror   
   XUV:       eXtreme UltraViolet   
   YSO:       Young Stellar Object   
   Z:         Zulu (see UT)   
      
   -- Mark Bradford (tla@surly.org) <> To err is human, to moo bovine.   
   "It is good to have an open mind, but not at both ends."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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