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2 April 2009 1 NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER ORAL HISTORY PROJECT ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT JEFFREY A. HOFFMAN INTERVIEWED BY JENNIFER ROSS-NAZZAL CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS – 2 APRIL 2009 ROSS-NAZZAL: Today is April 2nd, 2009. This oral history with Dr. Jeff Hoffman is being conducted for the JSC Oral History Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The interviewer is Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, assisted by Rebecca Wright. Thanks again for making time for us this afternoon. We appreciate it. HOFFMAN: Well, good, I’m looking forward to it. Let’s get started. ROSS-NAZZAL: Absolutely. I wanted to ask you about your interest in science and space growing up as a child. Can you tell us about that? HOFFMAN: Sure. I grew up in New York City in a more or less well-to-do family. My parents took me all over the place to museums and concerts, and among the other places was the Hayden Planetarium. My father used to take me to see a new show there every month. There were a lot of things I enjoyed as a kid, but somehow astronomy just got to me. My parents could see that, so they encouraged it. I’m old enough now so that that was actually before Sputnik. So the only astronauts were Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, but lots of people were writing about the coming of the space age in magazine articles, Walt Disney television programs. I lapped it all up and continued an interest in science and math.
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