Spaceman An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

by Mike Massimino

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino shares true stories from space. Massimino's childhood space dreams were born when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, he attended Columbia and MIT, flunked his first doctoral exam, and was rejected three times by NASA before making it through astronaut selection. The book takes readers through his first spacewalk, the tragedy of losing friends in the Columbia shuttle accident, and the development of his work with the Hubble Telescope, which he and his fellow astronauts were tasked with saving on his final mission.

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