All Linda M. Godwin Quotes
- Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came… Along
- It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home. Coming
- I did grow up with a really big interest in math and science; I liked it. Big
- 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 the… Bring
- 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 we're… Altitude
- We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. Arm
- I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm. Arm
- 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… All
- In the Astronaut Office we're never totally out of training, we always keep our hand in it. But after five years, things have changed and… Always Keep
- There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to… Apply
- A lot of these things will fly in later forms on the space station themselves, or a later form of that research will, once they… Basics
- As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all… All
- It is a very busy mission: every day has some major goals that we have to get through, but my experience before has been that… Been
- The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before. Benefit
- UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago. Ago
- It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me… Arm
- 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 worked so hard… All
- 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 them… Challenge
- 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 people… All
- We still have a lot of international partner modules that need to get up there to make it truly the international structure that it will… Bigger
- 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 vector,… Ahead