Jeffrey Hoffmann
Jeffrey Alan Hoffman (born November 2, 1944) 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. Trained as an astrophysicist, he also flew on 1990 Spacelab shuttle mission that featured the ASTRO-1 ultraviolet astronomical observatory in the shuttle\'s payload bay. Over the course of his five missions he logged more than 1,211 hours and 21.5 million miles in space. He was also the first Jewish man in space.
Spaceflights
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 STS-51D MSP 12.04. - 19.04.1985 6d 23h 55m
2 STS-35 MSP 02.12. - 11.12.1990 8d 23h 05m
3 STS-46 MSP 31.07. - 08.08.1992 7d 23h 15m
4 STS-61 MSP 02.12. - 13.12.1993 10d 19h 58m
5 STS-75 MSP 22.02. - 09.03.1996 15d 17h 41m
Total 50d 11h 54m
