Warren Hoburg
American engineer and NASA astronaut, pilot of SpaceX Crew-6.
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Warren Woodrow "Woody" Hoburg is an American engineer and NASA astronaut. He piloted SpaceX Crew-6, which lifted off on March 2, 2023. Hoburg became an astronaut candidate in 2017 with NASA Astronaut Group 22 and was later picked for the Artemis Program. Before his NASA career, he earned a B.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT in 2008, followed by an M.S. in 2011 and a Ph.D. in 2013 in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley. He also worked at Boeing and served as an assistant professor at MIT.
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Warren Woodrow Hoburg
- Born
- 16 September 1985
- Birthplace
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
- Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS); University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
- Time
- 185d 22h 43 m / 141 ft
- Selection
- NASA Group 22 (2017)
- Missions
- SpaceX Crew-6 (Expedition 68/69)
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Background
Hoburg's path to space started early. While attending North Allegheny High School, he participated in the first-ever Team America Rocketry Challenge and competed in the national finals. That hands-on rocketry experience foreshadowed a career in aerospace. After earning his Ph.D., he worked in product development at Boeing until 2014, then became an assistant professor at MIT. There, he sponsored the capstone project Jungle Hawk Owl, a UAV backed by the US Air Force, and managed the geometric programming Python package GPKit. In 2017, NASA selected him as an astronaut candidate in Group 22, and he began two years of training that August. By December 2020, he was one of eighteen astronauts named to the Artemis Program for a lunar mission originally planned for 2024. His first flight came as pilot of SpaceX Crew-6, launching on March 2, 2023.
Did You Know?
- He was a National Science Foundation research fellow from 2009 to 2013.
- Hoburg has worked with Yosemite Search & Rescue and the Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit.
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