Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on…

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

We're taking up some science experiments, some crystal growth things, we have a refrigerator that carries up some samples, new samples that…

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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…

— Linda M. Godwin

It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin

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

— Linda M. Godwin