SPACEMAN MIKE MASSIMINO AUTOGRAPHED COPY. Excellent Gift!!!!

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MIKE MASSIMINO. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to find yourself strapped to a giant rocket that s about to go from zero to 17,500 miles per hour? Or to look back on the earth from outer space and see the surprisingly precise line between day and night? Or to stand in front of the Hubble telescope, wondering if the emergency repair you re about to make will inadvertently ruin humankind s chance to unlock the universe s secrets? Mike Massimino has been there, and in "Spaceman" he puts you inside the suit, with all the zip and buoyancy of life in microgravity. Massimino s childhood space dreams were born the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, but his journey to realizing those dreams was as unlikely as it is captivating. Growing up in a working-class Long Island family, Massimino catapulted himself to Columbia and then MIT, only to flunk his qualifying exams and be rejected twice by NASA before making it to the final round of astronaut selection w