Jeffrey A. Hoffman

Jeffrey Hoffman
Born	Jeffrey Alan Hoffman (1944-11-02) November 2, 1944 (age 79) New York City, New York, U.S.
Education	Amherst College (BS) Harvard University (MS, PhD) Rice University (MS)
Space career
NASA astronaut
Time in space	50d 11h 54m
Selection	NASA Group 8 (1978)
Missions	STS-51-D STS-35 STS-46 STS-61 STS-75
Mission insignia

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman (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.^[1] Trained as an astrophysicist, he also flew on the 1990 Spacelab Shuttle mission that featured the Astro-1 ultraviolet astronomical observatory in the Shuttle's payload bay. Over the course of his five missions he logged more than 1,211 hours and 21.5 million miles in space. He was also NASA's second Jewish astronaut, and the second Jewish man in space after Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov.^[2]