| Acronym | Meaning |
| FRD | Flight Requirements Document |
| IPD | Information Processing Division |
| RIS | Reporting Identification Symbols |
| TGA | Trace Gas Analyzer |
| SLE | ERNO Spacelab Engineering |
| OIL | Operations Integration Instruction |
| SDH | Software Development Handbook |
| SADEC | SAFESan Andreas Fault Experiment |
| ES | Escape System |
| RVDT | Rotary Variable Differential Transformer |