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...small step for Jeff Hoffman, one large step for NASA...
After more than 150 parachute jumps, a hike up New Hampshire's Mt. Washington on skis, three previous space flights and other experiences in free-fall, Dr. Jeffrey A. Hoffman, NASA astronaut and Harvard astrophysics Ph.D. (1971), was ready last week when he stepped into space to repair one of the world's most expensive telescopes...
...E.T.A. Hoffman, a German storyteller, wrote Nussknacker und Mausekonig (The Nutcracker and Mouse King)--the tale of an eccentric, somewhat grotesque, journey into the blurred area between reality and fantasy. In 1844, a French writer, Alexandre Dumas pere softened and sweetened Hoffman's tale into the story of a young girl's Christmas fantasy that would inspire Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to stage it for the Maryinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892. Act One opens in the Silberhaus home where the family eagerly awaits party guests, and Clara and Fritz eagerly await the accompanying presents. Their mysterious...
...four astronauts who will venture outside Endeavour to work on the Hubble -- Musgrave, Jeffrey Hoffman, Thomas Akers and Kathryn Thornton -- are all veteran spacewalkers. Thornton, a nuclear physicist and mother of five, went on the 1992 mission that repaired the Intelsat communications satellite. On that flight, the 5-ft. 4-in. K.T., as the other astronauts call her, wasn't involved in wrestling the three-ton satellite into the shuttle's payload bay. (It eventually took three men to do that job.) This time, though, she will play a key role: installing the Hubble's corrective lenses. They will...
Perhaps Rudenstine has been led into these big plans by a small scale success. "The Link," the new laboratory building that serves to join Mallinkrodt and Hoffman has garnered nothing but praise. Between chemistry labs on side and the Earth and Planetary Sciences department on the other, "the Link's" main occupant will be a laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, a rather felicitous combination of the neighboring disciplines...