How NASA Astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman Helped Save Hubble 🧑‍🚀🔭

The Hubble Space Telescope was almost a failure. Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman, a former NASA astronaut who served on the first mission to fix Hubble in 1993, recounts the incredible journey of repairing the iconic space telescope.

At MIT, Dr. Hoffman is a professor of the practice of aerospace engineering, and the director of the Human Systems Lab and of the Massachusetts Space Grant. He flew five missions aboard the Space Shuttle, logging more than 1,211 hours and 21.5 million miles in space, including the first mission to repair the Hubble Telescope in 1993.