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HOFFMAN
Jeff
Senior Technical Advisor at Space Perspective
Organization: Space Perspective
Profession: Senior Technical Advisor
Biography
Jeff Hoffman is Senior Technical Advisor.
Career
A NASA Astronaut who flew over 21 million miles in space during five Space Shuttle flights, Jeff became the first astronaut to log 1,000 hours on the Shuttle. He performed NASA’s first unplanned contingency spacewalk and was an EVA crewmember of the first Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, performing space walks to fix the telescope’s vision.
An astrophysicist and professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, he is Deputy Principal Investigator of the MOXIE experiment on Mars2020 Perseverance mission, that landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. MOXIE will be the first extraterrestrial demonstration of In-Situ Resource Utilization, turning atmospheric CO2 into breathable oxygen. He was elected to the US Astronaut Hall of Fame in 2007.