"Jorge R. Frank" writes:
ATLAS has been replaced by CDA. ATLAS stood for APAS To LIDS Adapter
System. The APAS was mounted on the PMAs, which themselves were really just
APAS to CBM adapters.

Someone eventually figured out it would be simpler just to make a LIDS to CBM
adapter and cut out the middleman, hence CDA. It replaces both ATLAS and the
PMAs.

CDA is thin enough to fit in the unpressurized compartment of an HTV and will
be installed via the SSRMS on Node 2 forward and zenith. Two HTV flights will
deliver the two CDAs. The PMAs will be moved to unused CBMs for storage.

Pat Flannery writes:
Am I the only person who thinks that in the future we will speak and write
entirly in acronyms? :-D

LMPO
Pat

Pat Flannery writes:
You know, I'm getting fairly good at the acronyms...but still, all I can think
of them is these lines out of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" every time I run
into them around two or three times in a single sentence:
"But those that understood him smiled at one another and
shook their heads; but, for mine own part, it was Greek to me." :-D

Pat

I'll try to translate and hopefully Jorge will correct anything I get wrong.
;-)


LIDS == Low Impact Docking System (NASA/Lockheed?)
ATLAS == APAS to LIDS Adapter System (defunct)
APAS == Androgynous Peripheral Attach System (RSC Energia)
CDA == Common Docking Adapter (Boeing)
PMA == Pressurized Mating Adapter (Boeing)
CBM == Common Berthing Mechanism (Honeywell/Boeing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgy..._Attach_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Berthing_Mechanism
http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/design...35.ISS_CBM.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_Mating_Adapter

Dave