| Acronym | Meaning |
| PLBD | Payload Bay Doors |
| SEDS | Students For The Exploration And Development Of Space |
| CGF | Crystal Growth Furnace |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disk Read-Only Memory |
| HD | Henry Draper Catalog Entry |
| NICMOS | Near Infrared Camera/Multi Object Spectrometer |
| SWAN | Solar Wind Anisotropy Experiment |
| WIMP | Weakly Interacting Massive Particle |
| DSP | Defense Support Program |
| ARC | Ames Research Center (NASA) |