What does “ANSA” stand for?
ANSA stands for American National Space Administration. Or it could stand for Aeronautics and National Space Administration. Whatever it stands for, the word “ANSA” was obviously a play on the official “NASA” designation, which stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We’re not sure why the first and second movies, as well as the TV series deal with spacecraft and astronauts from an organization known as “ANSA” yet in the third movie, we are told that the agency is “NASA” and that “NASA” is going over the spacecraft that has returned. Changing political views and policy? Could be. A lot went on in the political theater in the real world between the time of the 1968 production of Planet of the Apes and the 1972 production of Escape from the Planet of the Apes. The patches on the astronauts’ suits all bear out the logo pictured above in every movie that deals with the astronauts and their spacecraft, in the first movie, the second movie, and in the short-lived television
