Sue Goudie was one of three children born in Osawatomie, Kansas, to Harold and Violette Thompson. She has one brother and a sister. She began her career as a stenographer during her senior year of high school. Sue married a classmate four years later who had finished ROTC and was looking forward to an Air Force career.

The next four years they moved around a lot. They started their life in California working briefly at Rocketdyne for Rockwell Engineering. Then it was off to San Antonio, Texas, to be inducted into the Air Force followed by flight school in Barstow, Florida. From there they moved to Spokane, Washington and then back to California to the growing aerospace industry. Their daughter Kathy was born there. On the go again they moved to San Diego, headquarters for General Dynamics, to install silos for the missiles throughout the U.S. and were eventually assigned to Plattsburgh, New York, where son Tom was born. Their next moves took them to Huntsville, Alabama, New Orleans, Louisiana, and finally back to the San Fernando Valley of California with Northrop Aviation. When the aerospace industry ignited in order to get a man on the Moon, they were sent to Houston, Texas. The children were school age and Sue was kept busy with carpooling, homework, PTA, Brownie Scouts, ballet lessons, Little League ball and the usual motherly tasks.

As the children grew, Sue felt a need to re-establish her career. She began her second career working part-time in a doctor's office. In 1972, she joined the aerospace workforce at the Bendix Aerospace Field Office. The assignment in the Houston office was primarily to track the ALSEP monitoring equipment which had been left on the Moon. When the tracking signals faded away Sue moved on to Northrop Services, Inc. working at JSC in lunar sciences. She typed scientific papers and lunar sample catalogs and later moved to the Meteorite Processing Laboratory where they monitored the receipt of meteorites from the Antarctic expeditions, and prepared allocations of samples for scientific investigators. Layoffs forced a transfer to Northrop's main office. She worked there for over four years.

Deciding that aerospace was an unstable field, Sue took a position at University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in the Equal Opportunity Employment office. She worked there for a year but there was no excitement in coming to work each day with no special goals to look forward to. She went to work for General Electric as an administrative assistant to the Business Manager. Sue worked there for three years until coming to work for Lockheed Martin at JSC with many former co-workers.

Sue works in the Sample Information Center and is responsible for monitoring Lunar samples, Cosmic Dust and Antarctic meteorites as they are allocated to scientific investigators. They prepare and process accountability records and monitor educational packages loaned to principal investigators, colleges and universities. They also receive and document all returned samples from scientific investigators.

Sue is certainly an asset to the high quality of work that is produced in the Sample Information Center. Our hats off to Sue for a job well done.