Jeffrey Hoffman
Jeffrey Hoffman · Exploration & Discovery
NASA astronaut, first Jewish-American man in space and first person to bring a Torah into space; read Hebrew verses over Jerusalem (STS-75, 1996) and flew on the first Hubble servicing mission.
1944, Brooklyn, New York, United States
United States; missions from Kennedy Space Center
Jeffrey Hoffman is recognized among Jewish contributors to Exploration & Discovery — NASA astronaut, first Jewish-American man in space and first person to bring a Torah into space; read Hebrew verses over Jerusalem (STS-75, 1996) and flew on the first Hubble servicing mission.
Jeffrey Hoffman is an American NASA astronaut, the first Jewish-American man to fly in space and the first person to carry a Torah scroll into orbit. During mission STS-75 in 1996 he read Hebrew verses while passing over Jerusalem, and he took part in the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission. He later became a professor of aerospace engineering at MIT.
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NASA astronaut, first Jewish-American man in space and first person to bring a Torah into space; read Hebrew verses over Jerusalem (STS-75, 1996) and flew on the first Hubble servicing mission.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Hoffman
