Space · astronaut
Jeffrey Hoffman
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
AMERICAN
RETIRED
Career
Time in space
50 d 11 h
Spacewalks
4
25 h 8 m outside
Flights
5
5 landings
Status
Retired
Nationality
AmericanBorn
02 Nov 1944First flight
12 Apr 1985Most recent flight
22 Feb 1996Type
GovernmentLinks
WikipediaBiography
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.
Flight log
Flights
| No. | Flight | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 05 | Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-75 | 22 Feb 1996 |
| 04 | Space Shuttle Endeavour / OV-105 | STS-61 | 02 Dec 1993 |
| 03 | Space Shuttle Atlantis / OV-104 | STS-46 | 31 Jul 1992 |
| 02 | Space Shuttle Columbia / OV-102 | STS-35 | 02 Dec 1990 |
| 01 | Space Shuttle Discovery / OV-103 | STS-51-D | 12 Apr 1985 |
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Source The Space Devs — Launch Library 2
Last checked 29 Sept 2026