Nasa said the segment had suffered from cracks and leaks

I expected better from the BBC.

rafram 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hmm? If you mean the capitalization, that’s BBC style.

That sounds weird. They write "Nasa" mid-sentence too, yet keep other acronyms (ISS) intact.

Some style guides distinguish between an acronym (Nasa, say the word as it's written) and initialism (ISS, say each letter)

	▲	ssl-3 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That certainly explains it; this particular acronym is even called out distinctly in the style guide. But "Nasa" still looks weirder to me than "NASA" does. Like writing "The Scsi bus went Awol" instead of "The SCSI bus went AWOL" also looks weird.

Do you mean the Bbc?

	▲	cwillu 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		No, because you don't pronouce that as “the bibs”, you say the letters.