| Acronym | Meaning |
| ERDA | Energy Research And Development Administration |
| EARN | European Academic Research Network |
| OFDA | Office Of Foreign Disaster Assistance |
| ESD | Environmental Satellite Data |
| CARS | Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy |
| INTEX | NASA's Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment |
| NGT | NASA Ground Terminal |
| ICS | Intercom System |
| KOFSE | Kuwait Oil-Fire Smoke Experiment |
| LAGEOS-2 | Laser Geodynamics Satellite-2 |