"Owen, your FASA background is cool! I always thought FASA stood for Fantasimulations. Where did you pick up that interesting factoid?"

The fact that FASA and FantaSimulations were different entities was pointed out several times in designers' notes for the game and in interviews with the authors and publishers. Note that in the credits for the various books, FanatSimulations is very carefully credited separately from FASA personnel. The correct derivation (Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration) is alluded to in one of their old pre-Star Trek RPG booklets for Traveller, the FCI (Freedonian Commercial Institute) Consumer's Guide and was confirmed in subsequent interviews with Jordan Weisman.