| Acronym | Meaning |
| OSCAR | Oxidant-Scavenging Characteristics Of April Rains |
| ESRO | European Space Research Organization |
| ALOO | Albuquerque Operations Office |
| ALPS | Alternate Launch Point System |
| MAPS | Multiple Aircraft Positioning System |
| ECMOP | Experimental Center For Mesoscale Ocean Predictions |
| ATSR | Argonne Thermal Source Reactor |
| IFD | In-flight Deployment |
| AIDA | Archive 1 Data Analyzer |
| CCAR | Colorado Center For Astrodynamics Research |