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 launched quite some time before our mission. Linda M. Godwin challengecoordinatecrew Change image and share on social
The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before. Linda M. Godwin benefittrain Change image and share on social
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. Linda M. Godwin basicfindfly Change image and share on social
It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home. Linda M. Godwin comehomeimportant Change image and share on social
UF is Utilization Flight. That got put in the manifest quite some time ago. Linda M. Godwin agoflightmanifest Change image and share on social
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 at least in the evening, you kind of take a deep breath and look around where you are and have some downtime. Linda M. Godwin breathbusyday share on social
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. Linda M. Godwin flightlaylot Change image and share on social
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 station, we bring the old ones home; we have a lot of clothing, we have a lot of food-U.S. and Russian food. Linda M. Godwin bringcarryclthe share on social
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 be, and that's highly important; we need to get to where the crew size is bigger. Linda M. Godwin bigcrowhighly share on social
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 so it's been good to get back into the flow and relearn a lot of things. Linda M. Godwin astronautbackchange share on social
