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Blue Dot 34: Mike Massimino

By Dave Schlom

Published November 10, 2016 at 10:30 AM PST

Our guest is Mike Massimino. He is the veteran of two space shuttle missions, STS-109 on Columbia in March of 2002 and the STS -125 aboard Atlantis in May of 2009. Both were missions to service the Hubble Space Telescope and the final flight was the one that literally saved the Hubble so that it could make dramatic discoveries about the mysterious existence of Dark Energy and determine the age of the Universe itself. His memoir, Spaceman: an Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock The Secrets of The Universe is out in print and on Audible.

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Dave Schlom

Dave Schlom is the longtime host and creator of Blue Dot. From surfing to Voyager in interstellar space, rock guitar to orcas in our imperiled oceans, the topics on Blue Dot are as varied as the host’s interests and connections -- which are pretty limitless! An internationally respected space history journalist, Dave is also deeply fascinated by all aspects of the grand workings of nature’s awesome machinery on scales ranging from galactic to subatomic. And topics take in all aspects of the arts and sciences.

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