| Acronym | Meaning |
| HPOTP | High Pressure Oxidizer Turbopump |
| DRAO | Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory |
| CCDS | Centers For The Commercial Development Of Space |
| VLBI | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| BFS | Backup Flight System |
| TM | Thematic Mapper |
| JILA | Joint Institute For Laboratory Astrophysics |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| HCI | Highes Communications |
| FRC | Flight Research Center |