Jeffrey A. Hoffman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jeffrey A. Hoffman

American astronaut

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1944

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession: astronaut, academic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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 first Jewish male astronaut, and the second Jewish man in space after Soviet cosmonaut Boris Volynov.