Mike Massimino

Photograph (c) Chad Griffith

About The Author

Mike Massimino served as an astronaut for NASA between 1996 and 2014, going on two missions to service the Hubble telescope, spending more than 30 hours on spacewalks. He has appeared as himself on The Big Bang Theory and is now a professor at the University of Columbia. He lives in New York.

Books by Mike Massimino

Spaceman

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

By Mike Massimino
With Tanner Colby
'This terrific memoir... is utterly gripping' Mail on Sunday

‘Read this book and be inspired to reach for the impossible’ Brian Greene

Many children dream of becoming an astronaut when they grow up, but when a six-year-old Mike Massimino saw Neil Armstrong <...
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