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Warren Woodrow "Woody" Hoburg (born September 16, 1985) is an American engineer and NASA astronaut.

Warren Hoburg
Born	Warren Woodrow Hoburg (1985-09-16) September 16, 1985 (age 37) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Status	Active
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Space career
NASA Astronaut
Current occupation	Assistant professor
Selection	NASA Group 22
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)

Early life and education

Warren Hoburg was born on September 16, 1985, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Jim and Peggy Hoburg. He graduated from North Allegheny High School, and 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]

Academic career

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]

NASA career

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 is selected to be pilot of SpaceX Crew-6 in 2023.[7]

Personal life

Hoburg is an avid rock climber, mountaineer, and pilot. He has previously worked with Yosemite search and rescue [1][8] and the Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit. [9]

Awards and honors

Hoburg was a National Science Foundation research fellow from 2009–2013, and is a two-time recipient of the AIAA Aeronautics and Astronautics Teaching Award.[1]

References

 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).

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Warren Woodrow « Woody » Hoburg est un aspirant-astronaute américain né le 16 septembre 1985 à Pittsburgh.

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Warren Woodrow “Woody” Hoburg (Pittsburgh, 16 settembre 1985) è un astronauta e ingegnere statunitense.

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