# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/linda-m-godwin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T11:05:35.607Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/linda-m-godwin"
name: "Linda M. Godwin"
slug: "linda-m-godwin"
description: "Linda Maxine Godwin 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. She was the first woman to perform spacewalks outside two different space stations, Mir in March 1996 and the International Space Station in December 2001."
tagline: "American astronaut"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linda_Godwin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1952-07-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump