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Our guest today is Mike Massimino. Mike is a former NASA astronaut, a New York Times best-selling author, and a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University. Mike is the veteran of two space flights, the fourth and fifth Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions in 2002 and 2009. He has a team record for the number of hours spacewalking in a single space shuttle mission, and he was also the first person to tweet from space. During his NASA career he received two NASA Space Flight Medals, the NASA Distinguished Service Medal, the American Astronautical Society’s Flight Achievement Award, and the Star of Italian Solidarity. His two books, Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe and Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible are NYTimes best sellers. A couple of fun facts. The street that Mike grew up on in Franklin Square, Long Island was renamed “Mike Massimino Street.” And He played himself multiple times in the role of Howard's fellow on the The Big Bang Theory television series.