= Spaceman =
== Mike Massimino, 2016, Central, BIOGRAPHY 629.45 ==
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 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Massimino | Wikipedia ]]
  . 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
 . no index :-(
 
 .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