Mike Massimino
Former NASA astronaut and author
Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut who flew two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. He is now an engineering professor, speaker and author.
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About Mike Massimino
Mike Massimino worked as a NASA astronaut from 1996 to 2014 and flew in space twice, on space shuttle Columbia in March 2002 and on space shuttle Atlantis in May 2009. Both flights were Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. He was the first person to tweet from space and the last to work inside Hubble. With his crewmates he set a team record for cumulative spacewalking time on a single shuttle mission. He earned his bachelor's degree at the Columbia University School of Engineering, then two master's degrees and a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is based in New York City, where he teaches engineering at Columbia and advises the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum. He has played himself in a recurring role on The Big Bang Theory and is in demand as a speaker. His books include Spaceman and Moonshot.