About Mike
Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut who flew two space missions (the 4th and 5th Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions in 2002 and 2009), performing four space walks to repair the telescope. He holds degrees from Columbia University and MIT, worked as an engineer at IBM, NASA, and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace, and held academic positions at Rice and Georgia Tech before joining Columbia University as a professor of mechanical engineering. He is the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
Photo: NASA / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
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Known for
- First person to tweet from space
- Hubble Space Telescope repair missions
- Spacewalking record in a single shuttle mission
- NASA astronaut
- Columbia University professor
- Recurring role on The Big Bang Theory
- New York Times bestselling author
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