| Acronym | Meaning |
| JIR | Job Improvement Request |
| LSA | Launch Services Agreement |
| SSEOS | Space Shuttle Engineering And Operations Support |
| LACIE | Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment |
| PLSS | Primary Life SuPport Subsystem |
| SSFS | Space Shuttle Functional Simulator |
| Q | Alpha Pitch Dynamic Pressure |
| RECONFIG | Reconfiguration |
| SH2 | Supercritical Hydrogen |
| PDM/FM | Pulse Duration Modulation/Frequency Modulation |