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...What was anybody doing in the late 60s?" asks Professor of Astronomy Jonathan E. Grindlay, a Ph.D. candidate with Hoffman. "We did lots of crazy things, like heading for the mountains in New Hampshire and skiing in Colorado...
...despite his adventurous nature, says Fazio, Hoffman's friends and colleagues expected him to keep a bit closer to terra firma...
...Walter H. G. Lewin, professor of physics at MIT and a personal friend of Hoffman's says that Hoffman's quest for a journey into space was not an easy...
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...
...Hoffman didn't make the first cut, but after Congress requested that NASA reevaluate the selection, he was accepted and granted the title of a full-fledged space cadet...