We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.

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.