Linda M. Godwin Quotes
It's very important to know that we packed it right because it is a safety issue for coming home.
Godwin, Linda M. "STS-108 Preflight Interview: Linda Godwin." National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2001.
The 2013 Congress was one of those that was politically polarized and unresponsive to party leaders. This presented gridlock in legislation that was needed to appropriate the money to maintain the needed level of air traffic controllers. So they were required to take unpaid furloughs reducing the number of air traffic controllers each day. Some critics wanted the Department of Transportation to try and control the usual number of aircraft flights with the reduced workforce. The Secretary refused.
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 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 the position of Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Missouri.