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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The MIT Libraries are hosting an event on Wednesday that might
be of interest to some of you.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Michelle
Baildon<br>
History, History of Science & Technology, Philosophy, and Anthropology
Librarian<br>
MIT Humanities Library<br>
Room 14S-222<br>
77 Massachusetts Ave.<br>
Cambridge, MA 02139<br>
Tel. 617-253-9352</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b>Astronaut Mike Massimino at MIT</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Talk 4-5pm<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Veteran Astronaut and MIT Alumnus Dr. Mike Massimino (SM TPP
1988, Engineer ME 1990, PhD 1992) will come to MIT on Wednesday Oct. 28 to talk
about his recent work servicing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and to return a
book to the MIT Libraries.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In May 2009 Massimino and six other astronauts boarded the
space shuttle Atlantis for a journey that took them 5.3 million miles for a
final servicing of the telescope. Massimino and other STS-125 crewmembers
conducted five spacewalks to upgrade the Hubble, enabling it to send back
spectacular images of the universe well into the next decade. While on
the mission the crew captured photographs and video, and Massimino became the
first astronaut to ‘Tweet’ from space—sending back updates on the mission
through his Twitter feed (<a href="http://twitter.com/astro_mike">http://twitter.com/astro_mike</a>),
which has surpassed 1 million followers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Accompanying Massimino on the mission was a rare book loaned
from the MIT Libraries’ collections. The book, a limited edition
facsimile of Galileo’s landmark publication Sidereus Nuncius (Starry
Messenger), was chosen to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s astronomical
research, the first recorded planetary observations using a telescope.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In his talk, Massimino will discuss his work and show images
and video from the mission. He will also present the well-traveled book
back to the MIT Community and the Libraries.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>This event is sponsored by the MIT Libraries, the Technology
and Policy Program (TPP)/ Engineering Systems Division (ESD), and Dept. of
Aeronautics and Astronautics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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