Space Quotes by Linda M. Godwin

10 Space quotes by Linda M. Godwin

Linda M. Godwin’s career spans many orbital journeys. In these ten brief excerpts she shares what the view from space taught her about purpose and perseverance.

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I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.

Linda M. Godwin

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It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that…

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We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

Linda M. Godwin

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There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected…

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Our shuttle crew is four people, because we're going to transfer a crew up to station, so all the jobs are divided…

Linda M. Godwin

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It's really kind of a challenge to keep coordinated with the two station crews that we'll be interacting with. And of course…

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A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research…

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We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in…

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In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things…

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I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury…

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We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

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The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.

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I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it.

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It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives…

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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…

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As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are…

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A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once…

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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…

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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…

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UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.

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We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it…

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It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been…

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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…

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Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that…

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