Spaceman by Mike Massimino
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares incredible true stories from space--a rare, wonderful world where science meets the most thrilling adventure."Mike is a spaceman through and through; he tells how hard work can take you out of this world."--Bill Nye the Science Guy
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that's about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on Earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble Space Telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you're about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind's chance to unlock the universe's secrets?
Mike Massimino has been there, and in Spaceman he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity.
Massimino's childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his first doctoral exam and be rejected three times by NASA before making it through the final round of astronaut selection.
Taking us through the surreal wonder and beauty of his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his enduring love for the Hubble Telescope--which he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final mission--Massimino has written an ode to never giving up, revealing just what having "the right stuff" really means.
Mike Massimino was a NASA astronaut from 1996 until 2014, flying twice in orbit: STS-109 on the space shuttle Columbia in March 2002 and STS-125 on the space shuttle Atlantis in May 2009, the last two Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Mike achieved a team record with his crewmates for the most cumulative spacewalking time in a single space shuttle mission, was the first human to tweet from space, and was the final human to work inside Hubble. Mike has a recurrent role on The Big Bang Theory as himself, as well as appearances on late-night talk shows, news programs, and documentaries, and is a sought-after motivational speaker. His BS, two MSs, and Ph.D. are all from Columbia University's School of Engineering. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is a prestigious university in the United States. He is currently an engineering professor at Columbia University and an advisor at the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781101903568 |
| ISBN 10 | 1101903562 |
| Title | Spaceman |
| Author | Mike Massimino |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Crown Publishing Group (NY) |
| Year published | 2017-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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