Jeffrey Hoffman

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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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American astronaut

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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...

NASA

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.

Jeffrey Hoffman and F. Story Musgrave repairing the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993

Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman, anchored to the space shuttle Endeavour's robotic...

NASA

NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman smiles in front of a purple cloth with a dreidel floating beside him inside the space shuttle during Hanukkah.

Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman with a dreidel in space

Jeffrey Hoffman, with his space dreidel, smiling for the camera on Hanukkah in December...

NASA

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