Linda M. Godwin
Linda M. Godwin
Linda Maxine Godwin Ph.D.is an American scientist and retired NASA astronaut. Godwin joined NASA in 1980 and became an astronaut in July 1986. She retired in 2010. During her career, Godwin completed four space flights and logged over 38 days in space. Godwin is the Assistant to the Director for Exploration, Flight Crew Operations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Since retiring she accepted the position of Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Missouri...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAstronaut
Date of Birth2 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
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, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.
I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.
The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before.
UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago.