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Jeffrey A. Hoffman

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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, when the orbiting telescope's flawed optical system was corrected. Trained as an astrophysicist, he also flew on the 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 NASA's second Jewish astronaut, and the second Jewish man in space after Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jeffrey A. Hoffman is the 316th most popular astronaut (down from 118th in 2019), the 11,466th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,433rd in 2019) and the 150th most popular American Astronaut.

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Among ASTRONAUTS

Among astronauts, Jeffrey A. Hoffman ranks 316 out of 556. Before her are Chris Hadfield, Mikhail Kornienko, Richard O. Covey, John M. Fabian, Thomas Akers, and Satoshi Furukawa. After her are Tracy Caldwell Dyson, James van Hoften, Timothy Kopra, Serena Auñón-Chancellor, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, and Aleksandr Poleshchuk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Jeffrey A. Hoffman ranks 677. Before her are Marilyn Black, Carl Pomerance, Seija Simola, José Urruzmendi, Aleksandr Lenyov, and Krystyna Kuperberg. After her are Gennady Yevryuzhikhin, Saira Banu, James van Hoften, Barrie M. Osborne, Avinash Dixit, and Peter Giles.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeffrey A. Hoffman ranks 11,468 out of 20,380. Before her are Gus Williams (1953), Terry Farrell (1963), Johnny Moss (1907), Christine Taylor (1971), Glenn Corbett (1933), and Kamala (1950). After her are Eugene J. Martin (1938), Mark Mothersbaugh (1950), Kirk Cameron (1970), Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921), Shelley Morrison (1936), and Awkwafina (1988).

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Among ASTRONAUTS In United States

Among astronauts born in United States, Jeffrey A. Hoffman ranks 150. Before her are Millie Hughes-Fulford (1945), Nicole Aunapu Mann (1977), Bryan D. O'Connor (1946), Richard O. Covey (1946), John M. Fabian (1939), and Thomas Akers (1951). After her are Tracy Caldwell Dyson (1969), James van Hoften (1944), Timothy Kopra (1963), Serena Auñón-Chancellor (1976), Lisa Nowak (1963), and Lee Archambault (1960).

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