Warren Woodrow "Woody" Hoburg (born September 16, 1985) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut.
Woody Hoburg | |
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Born | Warren Woodrow Hoburg September 16, 1985 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD) |
Space career | |
NASA astronaut | |
Time in space | 185d 22h 43m |
Selection | NASA Group 22 (2017) |
Total EVAs | 2 |
Total EVA time | 11h 38m |
Missions | SpaceX Crew-6 (Expedition 68/69) |
Mission insignia | |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical engineering Computer science |
Thesis | Aircraft Design Optimization as a Geometric Program (2013) |
Warren Hoburg was born on September 16, 1985, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Jim and Peggy Hoburg. While attending North Allegheny High School he participated in the first-ever Team America Rocketry Challenge and competed in the national finals. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2008. He earned a Master of Science in 2011, followed by a Ph.D. in 2013, in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2][3]
After completing his doctorate, Hoburg worked in product development at Boeing until 2014, when he became an assistant professor at MIT. He served as a sponsor for the capstone project Jungle Hawk Owl, which is a UAV sponsored by the US Air Force. He also manages the geometric programming Python package GPKit.[1][3][4]
In 2017, Hoburg was selected as an astronaut candidate in NASA Astronaut Group 22, and began the two-year training in August.[1][5] In December 2020 he was announced as one of the eighteen NASA astronauts selected as part of the Artemis Program for a lunar mission in 2024.[6]
He was the pilot of SpaceX Crew-6 that launched on March 2, 2023.[7]
Hoburg is an avid rock climber, mountaineer, and pilot. He has previously worked with Yosemite Search & Rescue[1][8] and the Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit.[9]
Hoburg was a National Science Foundation research fellow from 2009 to 2013, and is a two-time recipient of the AIAA Aeronautics and Astronautics Teaching Award.[1]
This article incorporates public domain material from NASA (January 2020). Warren Hoburg (PDF). National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Retrieved July 6, 2021. (Official NASA bio).