| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSO | Office Of Space Operations |
| BAC | Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry |
| ICH | Inter-Union Commission On The Lithosphere |
| ULTRIX | UNIX-based Operating System For Digital Equipment Corporation Computers |
| AMS | American Meteorological Society |
| MSFE | Mechanisms Of Soil Formation And Evolution |
| NVAP | NASA Water Vapor Project |
| EO | Ethylene Oxide |
| GENPRO | General Processor |
| DM | Data Management |