| Acronym | Meaning |
| NEAR | Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous |
| PDECD | Pulsed Discharge Electron Capture Detector |
| LIESST | Light-induced Excited Spin State Trapping |
| HEBBLE | High Energy Benthic Boundary Layer Experiment |
| WISE | Wide Line Separation (NMR Technique) |
| TTVD | Trap-to-trap Vacuum Distillation |
| SPADA | Simulation Program For Air Dust Concentration Analysis |
| RCP | Rapid Crack Propagation |
| CDS/ISIS | CDS/Integrated Set Of Information System |
| WLA | Waste Load Allocation |