| Acronym | Meaning |
| PLBD | Payload Bay Doors |
| STDCE | Surface Tension Driven Convection Experment |
| GHA | Greenwich Hour Angle |
| GRU | Glavnoye Razvedivatel'noye Upravileniye |
| GR | General Relativity |
| LDEF | Long Duration Exposure Facility |
| AOA | Angle Of Attack |
| BH | Black Hole |
| RIACS | Research Institute For Advanced Computer Science |
| CNES | Centre National D'Etude Spatiales |