Michael J. Massimino

Massimino is the rare engineer who can both crunch the math and grab a wrench in zero gravity. What draws me to him is the arc: a kid from New York rising through MIT into NASA, helping service the Hubble telescope, then choosing to teach at Columbia and tell stories at a museum afterward. That pivot from doing to teaching says a lot. He clearly sees space not as a personal trophy but as something to pass on. I admire people who treat their hard-won expertise as a gift to the next generation rather than a closed door, and he reads exactly like that.

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Name (English)

Michael J. Massimino

Name (Japanese)

マイク・マッシミーノ

Reading

まいく・まっしみーの

Born

August 19, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

engineer / astronaut / docent / author

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

High school

H. Frank Carey Junior-Senior High School

Awards & achievements

• NASA Space Flight Medal

• Xhttps://x.com/Astro_Mike
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Massimino
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q32295

Tags

• New York
• engineer
• astronaut
• docent

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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