First name and last name | Jeffrey Hoffman |
Date of birth | 02.11.1944 |
Nationality | USA |
Space Agency | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Status | Retired |
Type of astronaut | Government agency |
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_A._Hoffman |
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.