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  1. Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    |Fewer Letters|More Letters|
    |——-|———|—|
    |CST|(Boeing) Crew Space Transportation capsules|
    | |Central Standard Time (UTC-6)|
    |[NET](/r/Space/comments/1jko1xo/stub/mjxagmq “Last usage”)|No Earlier Than|
    |[NG](/r/Space/comments/1jko1xo/stub/mjxeapn “Last usage”)|New Glenn, two/three-stage orbital vehicle by Blue Origin|
    | |Natural Gas (as opposed to pure methane)|
    | |Northrop Grumman, aerospace manufacturer|
    |[NOAA](/r/Space/comments/1jko1xo/stub/mjx8bl6 “Last usage”)|National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, responsible for US ~~generation~~ monitoring of the climate|

    |Jargon|Definition|
    |——-|———|—|
    |[Starliner](/r/Space/comments/1jko1xo/stub/mjxdsu3 “Last usage”)|Boeing commercial crew capsule [CST-100](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_CST-100_Starliner)|

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  2. Man first NG couldn’t even get their own rockets up to get these to the iss themselves. now they can’t even deploy their payloads at all, seems like their glory days are behind them.