Jeffrey A. Hoffman

Jeffrey Hoffman is an American astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut who flew five Space Shuttle missions: STS-51-D (1985), STS-35 (1990), STS-46 (1992), STS-61 (1993) and STS-75 (1996). STS-61 was Hubble Servicing Mission 1. He was one of four astronauts who captured the Hubble Space Telescope and restored its sight in a record five spacewalks. He holds a doctorate in astrophysics from Harvard, and since leaving NASA he has been a professor at MIT.

Born: 2 November 1944
Country: United States
Flights: 5: STS-51-D (1985), STS-35 (1990), STS-46 (1992), STS-61 (1993), STS-75 (1996)
Time in space: 50 days 11 hours

Data as of 2 November 2026. Source: Wikidata (CC0). All people who have flown in space.

Events

2 December 1993

Hubble Servicing Mission 1
- Space Shuttle
- Richard O. Covey, Ken Bowersox, Story Musgrave, Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Kathryn C. Thornton, Claude Nicollier, Thomas Akers
Hubble was built to be serviced by astronauts, with handrails and instruments designed to be removed and replaced.
2 videos
- NASA Goddard
- Aviation & Space
Hubble Space Telescope
- Hubble Space Telescope, Space Shuttle
Hubble is a 2.4-metre telescope in low Earth orbit, built so that astronauts could service it. NASA and ESA built it to see the universe without the blur of the atmosphere, and to settle how fast the universe was expanding.
3 videos
- DCODE by Discovery
- NASA Goddard
- Primal Space