Spaceman
Mike Massimino, 2016, Central, BIOGRAPHY 629.45
- August 19, 1962 New York, Franklin Square
- IBM 1984-1986, NASA HQ 1987, NASA Marshall 1988,9
- Manipulator Position Display, evaluated on STS-69
- Adjunct M.Eng Professor at Rice 1992-1995
- Asst. Prof. at Georgia Tech 1995
- NASA Astronaut Class 1996, Group `6 "The Sardines", 35 Americans and 9 international, Graduation 1998
- "Astronaut Snoopy" doll as child in 1969, flown 2009
- Columbia BS 1984, MIT MS 1988 PhD 1992, robotics
- tall, two heads taller than wife Carola
- eye problems held him back for a decade
- Shackleton Mode - adventurers, expedition behavior, winter training at Cold Lake Alberta ( -20 to -40F at night)
Hubble repair STS-109 Columbia Mar 1-12 2002
- Budget $172M, $650,000 per hour
Hubble repair STS-125 Atlantis May 11-14, 2009
- Frank Cepollina (Cepi, "godfather of Hubble) at NASA Goddard
- Ball Aerospace Boulder, Lockheed Martin
- "Mass" still associated with NASA, but now a visiting prof. at Columbia
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p197 "The Earth is a spaceship, and we are all space travellers"
- p216 tells "spaceship" story at press conference after flight, impresses administrator Sean O'Keefe and President George W. Bush
- p207 STS107 Columbia bumped for STS109 Columbia to Hubble, ... STS107 burned on re-entry January 31, 2003
- p252 April 2005 O'Keefe replace with Michael Griffith, changes policy allowing new shuttle mission
- p285 ground down inner hex screwhead (too much "staking" adhesive on threads) couldn't remove
- p291-3 ground engineers suggest rip off handrail with 60 pounds force
p304 Quote from USA Today
- On May 17, 2009, floating 353 miles above the surface of the Earth, astronaut Michael Massimino put his gloved hand around a balky handrail obstructing repairs and ripped it off the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope. Only and astronaut could have done this.
- Frequent backseater training and trips in NASA T-38, 25 hours per month (or 15???)
- FOD = Foreign Object Debris damages jet engine "razor thin" turbine blades