When Mike Massimino was six years old in Long Island, New York, he saw astronauts as superheroes and held them up on a pedestal. The summer of 1969, he watched wide-eyed on the television as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took the first steps on the moon and remembers thinking, “They're going to be talking about this 500 years in the future.”
He immediately made his mom turn his elephant school play costume into an astronaut for Halloween.
