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Mods: Nasa's -> NASA's

This is a stylistic and regional difference. The convention in the UK is to use title case for acronyms, and all-caps for initialisms.

Why not go with the organization's preference (NASA in this case)?

Why go with the organization's preference?

...because it's the more respectful option?

That has nothing to do with respect. On the other hand, if you "respect" organization's spelling choices, you end up with abominations like "macOS". It's better to make a habit to ignore them.

No one complained when they named everything iEverything.

Or if they did, the complainers weren’t important enough to matter.

Just be thankful that they didn’t name iMac MacMan.

> Just be thankful that they didn’t name iMac MacMan.

That's a stupid name but at least it's a valid word.

Your username is uncapitalized.

Crap.

But if an organization (for whatever reason that might happen) wrote about me, I'd expect them to capitalize it properly according to their style guide.

Irrelevant: the article uses "NASA"

Why would conventions in the UK matter ? It is an article about a US agency on a US website.

Just use the original title.

The submitter might be from the UK, or some country other than USA, or use language constructs from such an area. The submitter might have corrected the title to match their local conventions.

That makes the title _right_, just not consistent with the conventions of a particular country.

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