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Congressional Budget Office says agency may have to scrap entire astronaut program...
Grindlay, however, disagrees. "In our grad student days, at the time of the Apollo moon landing, Jeff was pretty excited about [the idea of becoming an astronaut]," he says. "I don't think he thought it was a realistic opportunity at that time, but we were both speculating about how exciting it would be to do astronomy from space...
According to Lewin, who was invited by Harvard to sit on Hoffman's Ph.D. committee, Hoffman decided to apply for the NASA astronaut program even though his chance for admission was about 12 in several thousand...
...ability to work hard, follow directions, and find out why things don't go right when they should--all qualities an astronaut should have," says Henry F. Helmken, Professor of electrical engineering at Florida Atlantic University and Hoffman's thesis advisor at Harvard...
...wish for a better astronaut than Jeff because in space, he'd do exactly the right thing," says Lewin...