HEROES OF SPACE
JEFFREY A. HOFFMAN
The first astronaut to log more than 1,000 hours on board the Space Shuttle and the man who helped save Hubble
B orn in Brooklyn in 1944, he joined NASA in August 1979 following a glittering academic career. He designed, built, tested and flew a balloon-borne gamma-ray telescope for his PhD in astrophysics at Harvard University, and he worked on X-ray astronomy rocket payloads at Leicester University.