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Michael James Massimino [1] / ˌmæsɪˈmiːnoʊ / (born August 19, 1962) [2] is an American professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and a former NASA astronaut. He is the senior advisor of space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum .
Dec 3, 2023 · Mike Massimino set records in space travel, but his decade-journey to NASA taught him much more about how to live.
Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut, is a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
Dec 5, 2023 · Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares important life lessons from his journey to joining the space program and achieving what, at times, felt like an...
An astronaut, the first person to tweet from space, a recurring character on The Big Bang Theory, and now a New York Times bestselling author, Mike grew up a working class kid whose seemingly unreachable dream of becoming an astronaut and flying in space was realized in an unlikely journey that was driven by determination and commitment, and ...
Jul 19, 2019 · Fifty years ago a six-year-old boy named Michael Massimino sat in front of his family’s television on Long Island, N.Y., transfixed by the blurry black-and-white images of a man walking on...
Dec 5, 2023 · Learn how Columbia Engineering prepared Mike Massimino for his astronaut career and how he uses that expertise to train the next generation of Engineers.
Mike Massimino teaches and advises research in spaceflight topics including human factors, robotics, extra-vehicular activity (spacewalking), displays and controls, and planetary exploration.
Oct 18, 2016 · Mike Massimino served as a NASA astronaut from 1996 to 2014. A veteran of two space flights to the Hubble Space Telescope, Mike and his crews set team records for spacewalking time, and he became the first person to tweet from space.
May 13, 2009 · Massimino began ‘tweeting’ in early April about his training for the STS-125 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. By Wednesday morning, more than 247,000 people were following his Twitter feed.
