Michael J. Massimino

The hardest thing for me as an astronaut was to improve my swimming skills.

— Michael J. Massimino

I think most astronauts are not risk takers. We take calculated risks for something that we think is worthwhile.

— Michael J. Massimino

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for…

— Michael J. Massimino

At every step of the way, when I had trouble, there were people that came in, in my life that helped me.…

— Michael J. Massimino

Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a…

— Michael J. Massimino

In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon…

— Michael J. Massimino

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related…

— Michael J. Massimino

For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or…

— Michael J. Massimino

To become an astronaut is not a question of being the best at something or things coming easy to you, but it's…

— Michael J. Massimino

Viewing our planet was so compelling. Words like beautiful and awesome just don't do it justice. I felt that I was looking…

— Michael J. Massimino

The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness…

— Michael J. Massimino

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around…

— Michael J. Massimino

The thing I remember most about space is the view from the spacewalk. When I was inside the space shuttle and looking…

— Michael J. Massimino

Being outside during the space walk, the view of the Earth is just spectacular, and getting a chance to do that is…

— Michael J. Massimino

I had always been interested in the space program, and I didn't know if I could be an astronaut like I'd dreamt…

— Michael J. Massimino

I was the first person to tweet from space, but now every astronaut tweets from space and does Instagram and Snapchat and…

— Michael J. Massimino

I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not…

— Michael J. Massimino

I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut.…

— Michael J. Massimino