Former astronaut Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman is currently Professor of the Practice of Aerospace Engineering in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hoffman has 36 years of experience related to spaceflight at NASA and MIT. Hoffman was working at MIT’s Center for Space Research in 1978 when he was selected by NASA to join the Astronaut Corps. He made the first of his five space shuttle flights in 1985 on STS-51D. He also flew on STS-35 in 1990, STS-46 in 1992, STS-61 in 1993 and STS-75 in 1995. He left the Astronaut Corps in 1997 to become NASA’s European Representative, a position he held until 2001. After leaving NASA, Hoffman returned to MIT as a senior lecturer. He was named Professor of the Practice in 2002 and became Director of the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium in 2005, a position that he currently holds. Hoffman graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in astrophysics from Amherst College and received a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Harvard University. He has also garnered numerous awards, including two NASA Distinguished Service Medals. In 2007, he was elected to the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.
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