
Jeffrey Hoffman
Status: Retired
11/2/1944 –
Nationality: American
Type: Government
First Flight: 4/12/1985
Last Flight: 2/22/1996
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.