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Jeffrey Hoffman is a former astronaut from National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 5 spaceflights.
BIOGRAPHY
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.
PERSONAL DETAILS
NationalityUnited States of America
BornNovember 2, 1944
AgencyNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
TypeGovernment
StatusFormer
First FlightApril 12, 1985
Last FlightFebruary 22, 1996
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