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You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. ↗

— Fay Godwin

#definitive #expect #half #hour #image

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

#although #came #changes #flights #had

As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#because #catch #contingencies #day #days

I grew up watching a lot of the coverage of the early U.S. space program, all the way back starting with Mercury and then through Gemini and Apollo and of course going to the moon as the main part of the Apollo program. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#back #course #coverage #early #gemini

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

#always #astronaut #back #been #changed

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

#been #before #breath #busy #day

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#books #competing #dying #get #hell

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

#challenge #coordinated #course #crews #interacting

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

— Linda M. Godwin

#been #before #flow #get #ready

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

#carries #clothing #crystal #experiments #food