Ahead Quote by 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 between four…

— 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 also gives…

— 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 space, and…

— 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 3 are…

— 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 will, once…

— 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 one of…

— 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 that it…

— 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 has been…

— Linda M. Godwin