Bidspirit auction | Space Shuttle Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman

Space Shuttle Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman signed US FDC Kennedy Space Center Pmark. Space missions STS-61, STS-75, STS-51-D, STS-46, STS-35. Jeffrey Alan Hoffman (born November 2, 1944) is an American former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 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. Good condition. Part of Single Vendor collection. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide.