Linda M. Godwin Quotes

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 just in a little different altitude.

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

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

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 what the changes are in humans as well.

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 for them.

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

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

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 kind of find out some of the basics from flying it on shuttle.