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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 also served as the assistant to the director for exploration, Flight Crew Operations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. Since retiring from NASA, she accepted ...
- Retired
- 1985 NASA Group
- July 2, 1952 (age 71), Cape Girardeau, Missouri, U.S.
A veteran of four space flights, Dr. Godwin has logged over 38 days in space, including over 10 EVA hours in two spacewalks. In 1991 she served as a Mission Specialist on STS-37, was the Payload Commander on STS-59 in 1994, flew on STS-76 in 1996, a Mir docking mission, and served on STS-108/International Space Station Flight UF-1 in 2001.
May 4, 2021 · Linda Godwin was an 8-year-old girl growing up in Jackson when the first manned U.S. space flight occurred. "It was otherwise a really turbulent decade," Godwin said Monday of Shepard's flight ...
Apr 5, 1991 · By United Press International. Three days into her first space mission, physicist-astronaut Linda Godwin faces the daunting task of using the shuttle Atlantis's fragile robot arm to launch a ...
Godwin used the Shuttle’s robotic arm to install the MPLM onto the Station Node, and participated in a space walk to wrap thermal blankets around ISS Solar Array Beta Gimbal Assemblies. STS-108 was accomplished in 185 Earth orbits, traveling 4.8 million miles (7.7 Gm) in 283 hours and 36 minutes.
Jan 3, 2022 · Linda Godwin spoke with us at the CoMo 200 celebration on the 4th of July. She’s originally from Cape Girardeau and is a former astronaut and scientist for NASA who did four space flights and logged over 38 days in space during her career.Today, she works with the Climate and Environment Commission in Columbia informing the community about climate change and spoke about her experiences and ...
Dr. Godwin joined NASA, at the Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, in 1980, working in Payload Operations. In this role, she supported the development and integration of science missions for the early Space Shuttle Program and served as a flight controller and payloads officer in the ground Mission Control Center for several flights before being selected as an astronaut candidate in 1985.
