NGS Style Manual - S -

1.	Launch vehicles and rockets are in roman, initial caps, and carry Roman numerals:

Atlas IV

Saturn V

Nike V

 

2.	Spacecraft are in roman, initial caps, and carry Arabic numerals:

Apollo 10 Explorer 2 Gemini 8

Mariner 4 Mercury 3 Landsat 1

Surveyor 6 Voyager 1 Pioneer 12

 

3.	Space shuttles, lunar modules, command modules, etc., that have specific names appear in italic, with initial caps: space shuttle Discovery, lunar module Eagle, but NASA's Mars exploration rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

 

4.	Related Terms

astronaut (always lowercase) capsule communicator g, 5 g's, zero g g-force g meter hard landing (noun) lunarnaut (always lowercase) lunarscape lunar rover lunar vehicle Mission Commander (before name) Mission Control

moon bound (en route) moonbound (confined to) moonship outer space (interstellar or intergalactic) retro-jettison Skylab Spacelab space shuttle space telescope (Hubble Space Telescope) T time, T minus 5 transearth translunar