I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before. — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it. — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided between four… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course one of… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago. — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that go into… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
