Jeffrey A. Hoffman

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman, Ph.D. (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT. Hoffman made five flights as a space shuttle astronaut, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, when the orbiting telescope's flawed optical system was corrected. Trained as an astrophysicist, he also flew on 1990 Spacelab shuttle mission that featured the ASTR... More

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  • Nov 2, 1944 (age 67 years)

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  • 1 mon 20 d 1 h 53 min 57 s

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  • Jeffrey Hoffman
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