| Acronym | Meaning |
| KTB | Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary |
| BIMDA | Bioserve-Instrumentation Technology Associate Materials Dispersion Analysis |
| BFCS | Backup Flight Control System |
| NOAA | National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration |
| GUGK | Glavnoye Upravileniye Geodesii I Kartografii |
| CFF | Columbus Free Flyer |
| CYSP | Cape York Space Port |
| DM | Dark Matter |
| CIT | Circumstellar Imaging Telescope |
| GMT | Greenwich Mean Time |