massimino, mike

"The story of Mike Massimino's life growing up in a working-class family and his determination to get the education and experience that would lead to his challenging but successful rise to become a NASA astronaut"--Provided by publisher.

"The story of Mike Massimino's life growing up in a working-class family and his determination to get the education and experience that would lead to his challenging but successful rise to become a NASA astronaut"--Provided by publisher.

The author describes his long journey to become an astronaut, highlighting his childhood obsession with space stemming from Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon, his education at Columbia and struggles at MIT, and three rounds of rejections at NASA before becoming an astronaut. Also discusses his first spacewalk, the "Columbia" shuttle accident, and his work on the Hubble Telescope.