Ep. 1254: Mike Massimino Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Mike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut, is a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University and the senior advisor for space programs at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Mike was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1996, and is the veteran of two space flights, the fourth and fifth Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions in 2002 and 2009. Mike has a team record for the number of hours spacewalking in a single space shuttle mission, and he was also the first person to tweet from space.

The topic is his book Moonshot: A NASA Astronaut’s Guide to Achieving the Impossible.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The Wright Brothers and their achievements
Overcoming fear of failure and embracing the process
Pursuing an astronaut career
Influence of "The Right Stuff" movie and book
Space shuttle accident and its impact
Memorable moments during first space launch
Hubble missions and discoveries
Potential for life in the universe

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.1	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.2	That's my passion.
0:33.5	This is one of those instant conversations for me where I am inspired, motivated in a split second.
0:42.0	The man just has a personality.
0:43.8	He has a vibe.
0:44.6	He has a something that you immediately feel.
0:48.3	Now, I did this conversation with Mike on videos, so we were able to see each other.
0:52.3	Maybe that inspired both of us.
0:56.1	But what a fun conversation.
1:01.3	My guest today is Mike Massimino. Mike happens to be an astronaut. He happens to be the first astronaut to appear on this podcast. Today we discuss his new book, Moonshot, a NASA astronaut's
1:07.9	guide to achieving the impossible. Now, of course, you probably know how I do
1:12.1	this podcast. I like to have people on that have written books. I like to read, but I don't take
1:17.3	people through a new book word by word. That's not how I do it. I just want to have a conversation.
1:22.9	My guest today, Mike Massimino, what a great guy to have a conversation with. I wish I could
1:27.4	talk to him
1:28.0	for hours, for weeks, for months. There would just be so much that I could learn from him. But you know what?
1:35.3	I'll take this almost one hour conversation because I'm damn lucky. I get to do this podcast. I get to
1:41.7	talk to smart people. It's always fun. Without any further delay, please enjoy the first astronaut to appear on this podcast, I get to talk to smart people. It's always fun.
1:50.0	Without any further delay, please enjoy the first astronaut to appear on this podcast, Mike Massimino.
2:01.0	When you left San Diego for Saigon?
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