Talk:Orbit Attitude and Maneuvering System

Copy-edit
Not so much copy-editing needed as a proper re-write. 2/3 of the article is just one long quote from another publication ! thisisace 23:33, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

Caps or non-capped
Re this edit: http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4203/appa.htm uses "orbit attitude and maneuvering system", as do most of the other instances on nasa.gov that don't have it in a title. And the Wikipedia title doesn't use caps, so there's no reason for the lede to. -- JHunterJ (talk) 20:12, 7 May 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't know what "other instances on nasa.gov" exactly means, but the general NASA web pages contain a lot of revisionist history written after the fact which I wouldn't consider gospel. Since the page you give from On the Shoulders of Titans is a glossary listing "OAMS" which is obviously an acronym, I would have to conclude that's a typo (or else more revisionism in the transcription of the original book.) NASA's fondness for acronyms was legend, and I'll bet if you scoured the whole document (admittedly hard to do in this format) and any others that may be available, you'd find it with the capitals. It could also be argued (just what we need, another wikiargument) that this page should be moved to the caps title, since it is an acronym. Using sentence case makes it sound like a generic term, which it decidedly is not since it was never used again on anything else. (Contrast this with reaction control system, which was originally used as an acronym, but became the popular term for use on several programs (Apollo and Shuttle), so is properly considered a generic.) JustinTime55 (talk) 19:17, 12 April 2013 (UTC)