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LI astronaut - and Mets fan - at Citi Field ceremony

It was 1969, the year that Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and the Mets won the World Series. Michael Massimino, a 6-year-old from Franklin Square, watched both dramas unfold on his television and vowed that one day he would be an astronaut and a professional baseball player.

"It turned out I wasn't anything special in baseball," Massimino said.

Massimino had other talents, and in...

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