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Jeff Hoffman, wearing an orange NASA spacesuit, stands beside a U.S. flag and rests one hand on a helmet, posing for an official portrait. Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman, anchored to the robotic arm of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, installs equipment on the Hubble Space Telescope during a spacewalk, with another astronaut reflected nearby. NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman smiles in front of a purple cloth with a dreidel floating beside him inside the space shuttle during Hanukkah.
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Jeff Hoffman, wearing an orange NASA spacesuit, stands beside a U.S. flag and rests one hand on a helmet, posing for an official portrait.
Jeffrey Hoffman's official NASA portrait Jeffrey Hoffman was the first NASA astronaut to log 1,000 hours aboard the space shuttle.

Jeffrey Hoffman

American astronaut
Also known as: Jeffrey Alan Hoffman
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Jeffrey Hoffman (born November 2, 1944, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.) is an American astronaut and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Having completed five space flights, he was the first astronaut to log 1,000 hours aboard the space shuttle. He was also the first Jewish American man in space. Celebrated for his repair of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, Hoffman was elected into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2007. Hoffman’s...

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