Thomas James has lots of new posts over at Marsblog this morning.

Check out in particular his thoughts on spacecraft diets. Also, I’m curious as to what he means by (JARGON WARNING!), “It’s worth noting that a good chunk of that excess weight is due to changes to the LM FPR configuration neccessitated by the merging of the NG/Boeing and Smart Buyer configurations and inputs from NASA ADPs.”

An acronym list would be useful, but what and when was the “merging of the NG/Boeing and Smart Buyer configurations”?