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Like many kids, Mike Massimino dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Against all odds, he turned that dream into reality. This is his story

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Stepping out onto the surface of the moon on 20th July 1969, Neil Armstrong boldly went where no man had gone before. In doing so, he inspired a whole generation of eager, space-dreaming, future astronauts. One of these was Mike Massimino, who joins Hannah Devlin in the studio this week to reflect on the unlikely tale that took him from the streets of New York to the Hubble Telescope and back.

This May 17, 2009 NASA image shows shuttle Atlantis astronaut Mike Massimino, STS-125 mission specialist,as he peers through a window on the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Atlantis during the mission's fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA) as work continues to refurbish and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. During the eight-hour, two-minute spacewalk, Massimino and astronaut Michael Good (background), mission specialist, continued repairs and improvements to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) that will extend the Hubble's life into the next decade. AFP PHOTO AFP PHOTO/NASA VIDEO = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE = GETTY OUT = (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images) Twitter from space
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