National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Jeffrey Hoffman

United States of America

Jeffrey Hoffman
Retired

Biography

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Jeffrey Alan Hoffman 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.

Type

Government

Age

81

Date of Birth

November 2, 1944

First Flight

April 12, 1985

Last Flight

February 22, 1996

Career Stats

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5

Flights

5

Landings

4

Spacewalks

P50DT11H52M35S

Time in Space

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