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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 VOIR:      Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM) 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." 
  
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