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.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-D
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-35
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-46
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-75
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Type: Government
Abbreviation: NASA
Administration: Administrator: Bill Nelson
Founded: 1958
Launchers: Space Shuttle | SLS
Spacecraft: Orion
Country: USA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
