Michael T. Good

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Michael T. Good

Air Force weapon systems officer from Broadview Heights who made four spacewalks on two shuttle flights: the final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission (STS-125, 2009) and a space station mission (STS-132, 2010).

Born October 13, 1962, Parma

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At a glance

Born: October 13, 1962, Parma (Cuyahoga County) source
Also known as: Mike Good, Michael T. Good
Known as: Aviation Space, Military, Science Engineering

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Life story

Mike Good was born in Parma in 1962 and grew up in Broadview Heights, Cuyahoga County, where he ran cross country and track and spent several high school summers on the city's garbage trucks before graduating from Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School in 1980. He studied aerospace engineering at Notre Dame (B.S. 1984, M.S. 1986) and was commissioned through its ROTC program, then became one of only two Air Force navigators ever chosen as astronauts, flying F-111s in England and flight-testing the B-2 bomber and the F-15. NASA selected him in 2000; on STS-125 in May 2009, the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission, he made two spacewalks to overhaul the telescope, and on STS-132 in May 2010 he made two more to replace space station batteries. He logged nearly 30 hours of spacewalking in all, retired from the Air Force as a colonel in 2009 and from NASA in 2019. Ohio counts him among its 25 astronauts as Michael T. Good of Broadview Heights.

Ohio ties

Parma (1962)
birthplace Cuyahoga County · source
Broadview Heights (childhood-1980)
hometown, where he lived until college; summer job on the city's garbage trucks Cuyahoga County · source
Broadview Heights (Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School) (to 1980)
graduated in 1980; ran cross country and track Cuyahoga County · source

Timeline

1962 Born October 13 in Parma, Ohio; he considers Broadview Heights his hometown. source
1980 Graduated from Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School. source
1981 As a Notre Dame freshman watched the first space shuttle flights, which he said first turned his thoughts to aerospace engineering. source
1984 Graduated from Notre Dame in aerospace engineering as a Distinguished ROTC Graduate and was commissioned a second lieutenant; the Air Force let him finish a master's (1986) before active duty. source
1989 Received his Air Force navigator wings in January, then flew F-111s as an instructor weapon systems officer with the 20th Fighter Wing at RAF Upper Heyford, England. source
1994 Graduated from the USAF Test Pilot School and went on to flight-test the B-2 stealth bomber with the 420th Flight Test Squadron. source
2000 Selected as a NASA mission specialist in July with Astronaut Group 18. source
2009 Flew on STS-125 Atlantis (May 11-24), the fifth and final Hubble servicing mission, making two spacewalks totalling 15 hours 58 minutes; he carried a Notre Dame pennant. source
2009 Retired from the Air Force as a colonel in October and moved to government civil service. source
2010 Flew on STS-132 Atlantis (May 14-26), which delivered a Russian-built Mini Research Module (Rassvet) to the space station; on two spacewalks totalling 13 hours 55 minutes he replaced P6 truss batteries. source
2015 Listed as 'Michael T. Good of Broadview Heights' among Ohio's 25 astronauts in Ohio House Resolution 28. source
2019 Retired from NASA on May 31, after serving as NASA liaison to Air Force Space Command and in the Commercial Crew Program. source

Stories

The garbage man of Broadview Heights

Before his second flight Good told NASA that he lived in Broadview Heights, about ten miles south of Cleveland, from childhood until he left for college: close enough to go downtown for ball games, far enough out for suburban summers and snowy winters. For three or four high school summers he worked on the city's garbage trucks, picking up his own family's and his friends' trash; some residents left him cookies and drinks in their mailboxes. A cross-country and track runner, he often ran the whole route instead of riding on the back of the truck. Asked why so many astronauts came from Ohio and Cleveland, he recalled Neil Armstrong suggesting it might be a place where people worked with their hands on mechanical things.

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Riding with Hubble

Good's first flight, STS-125 in May 2009, was the last servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Before launch, he said, he used to stand in his driveway watching Hubble cross the night sky like a bright star and imagine hanging on to it. When Atlantis rendezvoused, the telescope grew from a pinpoint of light until the crew grabbed it with the robot arm and berthed it in the payload bay, where Good and his crewmates opened its doors and worked inside. He made two of the mission's five spacewalks, logging nearly 16 hours outside, and the overhauled telescope got new instruments, batteries, gyroscopes and a computer.

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Sites to know

Homes, graves, markers, museums and monuments; the numbered ones are on the map.

1 Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School (class of 1980)
Broadview Heights Cuyahoga County · source
2 Broadview Heights, Ohio (hometown; city centre coordinates) (unknown)
Broadview Heights Cuyahoga County · source

Ohio places

Where Michael T. Good was born, lived, worked and is remembered, with the ZIP code, town and county pages for each.

Born: Parma, Cuyahoga County Parma · Cuyahoga County
Connected: Parma, Cuyahoga County Parma · Cuyahoga County
Connected: Broadview Heights, Cuyahoga County Broadview Heights · Cuyahoga County
Connected: Broadview Heights, Cuyahoga County Broadview Heights · Cuyahoga County

Documents

Primary records: patents, letters, court and government files, nominations and old county histories, each at the archive that holds it.

STS-132 preflight interview: Mission Specialist Mike Good (NASA transcript) 2010, NASA (archived by the Internet Archive)
NASA Biographical Data: Michael T. Good (Colonel, USAF, Ret.), October 2014 2014, NASA Johnson Space Center
Ohio House Resolution 28 (131st General Assembly, 2015), listing Michael T. Good of Broadview Heights among Ohio's 25 astronauts 2015, Ohio General Assembly

Pictures

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Astronaut Class of 2000 (Group 18)
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United States President Barack Obama greets the STS-132 Atlantis Space Shuttle crew and International Space St...
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President Barack Obama greets crew members from the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the International Space Station...
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STS-125 Mission Specialist 2 (MS2) Megan McArthur (center), MS5 Andrew Feustel (right), and MS1 Michael Good p...
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Inside the White Room on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, STS-125 crew members get re...
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NASA astronaut Michael Good, STS-132 mission specialist, participates in the mission's third and final session...
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Astronaut Michael Good rides Atlantis' robotic arm to the exact position he needs to be to continue work on th...
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Astronaut Michael Good rides Atlantis' robotic arm to the exact position he needs to be to continue work on th...
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NASA astronauts Michael Good (left) and Garrett Reisman, both STS-132 mission specialists, look through the af...
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STS-125 Mission Specialist 1 (MS1) Michael Good poses for a photo in the shuttle Atlantis middeck.
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STS-125 Mission Specialist 1 (MS1) Michael Good poses for a photo on the shuttle middeck. Pilot Gregory C. Joh...
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Astronaut Michael Good, STS-125 mission specialist, is busy unpacking equipment on Atlantis' middeck during hi...
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Sources

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