| Acronym | Meaning |
| HTVL | Horizontal Takeoff Vertical Landing |
| CITE | Cargo Integration Test Equipment |
| GR | General Relativity |
| GMRT | Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope |
| RFM | Reconfigurable Furnace Module |
| LEST | Large Earth-based Solar Telescope |
| CRIM | Commercial Refrigerator Incubator Module |
| SSPO | Space Shuttle Program Office |
| PDE | Particle Dispersion Experiment |
| GRS | Gamma Ray Spectrometer |