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Happy Birthday to Scarsdale’s Jeffrey Alan Hoffman

SCARSDALE, N.Y. -- Happy birthday to Scarsdale’s Jeffrey Alan Hoffman

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman turns 70 on Sunday.

Jeffrey Alan Hoffman turns 70 on Sunday.

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Hoffman, who graduated from Scarsdale High School, turns 70 on Sunday.

Hoffman, a former NASA astronaut and currently a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, was born Nov. 2, 1944, in Brooklyn. 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 1990 Spacelab shuttle mission that featured the ASTRO-1 ultraviolet astronomical observatory in the shuttle's payload bay.

Hoffman is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics, the International Astronomical Union, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the American Astronomical Society, the Spanish Academy of Engineering, Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi.

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