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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...
...keeps his cool under almost all bizarre and difficult situations," says Lewin...
According to Lewin, during one of Hoffman's 150 parachute jumps, his parachute failed to open completely and he began to plummet in free-fall toward the ground...
...Most people in this situation, in panic, pull the energy backup string [causing the parachutes to entangle] and free-fall to earth, killing themselves," says Lewin...
...wish for a better astronaut than Jeff because in space, he'd do exactly the right thing," says Lewin...