Michael Massimino

At-a-Glance

Veteran of two space shuttle missions and four spacewalks, including the most complicated spacewalk ever attempted to repair the Hubble Space Telescope
First person to tweet from space and holds the team record for most spacewalking time on a single space shuttle mission
Professor of Engineering at Columbia University in the City of New York since 2014
President at Astro Mike Media, LLC since 2014
New York Times bestselling author
Host for the Science Channel Series 'The Planets and Beyond'
Senior Advisor for Space Programs at Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum since 2014

Biography

Michael Massimino is a former NASA Astronaut, a Columbia University engineering professor, and a New York Times bestselling author. He is a veteran of two space shuttle missions and four spacewalks. During his time at NASA from 1996 to 2014, he participated in missions that included successfully completing the most complicated spacewalk ever attempted to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.