NASA astronaut from Western Pa. returns to Pittsburgh for 1st time since suffering unprecedented medical event in space

How working for NASA actually works, according to a former NASA astronaut

Mike Massimino is a former NASA astronaut and veteran of two Space Shuttle missions.Massimino began his career as an engineer working at IBM and McDonnell Douglas Aerospace after earning degrees from Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He applied to NASA three times before being selected as an astronaut in 1996. He went on to fly two Space Shuttle missions, in 2002 and 2009, both focused on servicing the Hubble Spa…

NASA astronaut from Western Pa. returns to Pittsburgh for 1st time since suffering unprecedented medical event in space

Mike Fincke watched the Apollo 11 mission and historic lunar landing on television as a toddler.  Young as he was, he remembers the watershed moment...