| Acronym | Meaning |
| CATS | Cheap Access To Space |
| IOTA | Infrared-Optical Telescope Array |
| STDCE | Surface Tension Driven Convection Experment |
| COMSAT | Communications Satellite (Corporation) |
| APE | Auroral Photography Experiment |
| BECO | Booster Engine Cutoff |
| FOS | Faint Object Spectrograph |
| JEM | Japanese Experiment Module |
| SNU | Solar Neutrino Units |
| MSFC | Marshall Space Flight Center |