Terms & Abbreviations: M
- MCC
Mission Control Center. Popularly known as “Houston” (as in “Houston, we have a problem”)
- MIT
Massachussets Institute of Technology. In these memos, MIT is shorthand for the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, created and led by avionics pioneer Charles Stark Draper. It is now known as the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and became independent of MIT in 1973.
- MPAD
Mission Planning and Analysis Division (part of MSC).
- MSC
Manned Spacecraft Center. Now known as Johnson Space Center.
- MSFC
- MSFN
Manned Space Flight Network (pronounced "misfin").