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...Hoffman's task was to participate in spacewalks to conduct servicing and repair activities on the Hubble. The telescope was launched in 1990 with a misshapen mirror, due to a manufacturing error, which prevented it from discerning the more remote objects in the cosmos...
...Hoffman and four other crewmates embarked upon several spacewalks last week and successfully installed a set of corrective mirrors and a new camera with corrective optics, replaced two rate-sensing gyroscopes and two magnetic sensing systems used in orienting the telescope and carried out a host of other necessary repairs, according to a NASA spokesperson...
According to Giovanni G. Fazio, lecturer in astronomy and one of Hoffman's mentors while he was at Harvard, Hoffman exuded confidence prior to the mission...
...Hoffman graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College in 1966, received his doctorate in astrophysics from Harvard in 1971 and obtained a masters degree in materials science from Rice University in 1988. His doctoral work at Harvard focused on the design, construction, testing and flight of a balloon-borne, low-energy, gamma ray telescope...
...according to Hoffman's fellow graduate students, the future astronaut was never without some idea for an adventure in travel...