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.

STS-59 Endeavour (April 9-April 20 1994) was the Space Radar Laboratory (SRL) mission.  . NASA career
Godwin joined NASA in 1980 in the Payload Operations Division Mission Operations Directorate where Linda M. Godwin worked in payload integration (attached payloads and Spacelabs) and as a flight controller and payloads officer on several Space Shuttle missions.

Godwin is the Assistant to the Director for Exploration Flight Crew Operations Directorate at the Johnson Space Center. D. ) is an American scientist and a NASA astronaut.