| Acronym | Meaning |
| CRAF | Comet Rendezvous/Asteroid Flyby |
| BDB | Big Dumb Booster |
| IOC | In-Orbit Checkout And Calibration |
| LAGEOS | Laser Geodynamics Satellite |
| RME | Radiation Monitoring Experiment |
| HF | High Frequency |
| SPAS | Space Pallet Satellite |
| HPFTP | High Pressure Fuel Turbopump |
| CMBR | Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation |
| NESDIS | National Environmental Satellite Data And Information Service. |