Career record
Flights
5
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
50d 11h
Career EVA time
1d 1h
Spacewalks
4
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.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-75 — Mission Specialist · Success · February 22, 1996
- Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61 — Mission Specialist · Success · December 2, 1993
- Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-46 — Mission Specialist · Success · July 31, 1992
- Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-35 — Mission Specialist · Success · December 2, 1990
- Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-D — Mission Specialist · Success · April 12, 1985
Spacewalks
- STS-61 EVA 5 — 1993-12-09 · 7h 21m
- STS-61 EVA 3 — 1993-12-07 · 6h 47m
- STS-61 EVA 1 — 1993-12-05 · 7h 54m
- STS-51-D EVA (Placeholder) — 1985-04-16 · 3h 6m
Born 1944-11-02