| Acronym | Meaning |
| CRIM | Commercial Refrigerator Incubator Module |
| BEM | Bug-Eyed Monster |
| GEO | Geosynchronous Earth Orbit |
| MLP | Mobile Launch Platform |
| BIMDA | Bioserve-Instrumentation Technology Associate Materials Dispersion Analysis |
| LASCO | Large Angle Spectrometric Coronograph |
| EJASA | Electronic Journal Of The Astronomical Society Of The Atlantic |
| CGRO | Compton Gamma Ray Observatory |
| GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
| STIKSCAT | Stick Scatterometer |