| Acronym | Meaning |
| ELVD | Every Launch Vehicle Directorate |
| EORC | Earth Observation Research Center |
| TES | Transequatorial Scatter |
| ASCII | American Standard Code For Information Interchange |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk-read Only Memory |
| NSI | NASA Science Internet |
| RDA | Remote Database Access |
| CAM | Computer-aided Manufacturing |
| MB | Megabits |
| ADR | Alternative Dispute Resolution |