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The story of retired astronaut Michael Massimino
Not many people can say they've graduated both from Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have published their memoir and have flown space missions with NASA except for our guest. Today, retired astronaut Michael Massimino is a mechanical engineering professor at Columbia Engineering School. He joins Hari Sreenivasan.
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