Warren Woodrow "Woody" Hoburg (born September 16, 1985) is an American engineer and
NASA
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astronaut.
Early life and education
Warren Hoburg was born on September 16, 1985, in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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, to Jim and Peggy Hoburg. While attending
North Allegheny High School
North Allegheny Senior High School (NASH) is a suburban high school in the North Allegheny School District and is located in Wexford, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The current building was built in 1974. In 2013, e ...
he participated in the first-ever
Team America Rocketry Challenge
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and competed in the national finals. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautics and astronautics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
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
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
.
Academic career
After completing his doctorate, Hoburg worked in product development at
Boeing
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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
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sponsored by the
US Air Force
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. He also manages the
geometric programming A geometric program (GP) is an optimization problem of the form
:
\begin
\mbox & f_0(x) \\
\mbox & f_i(x) \leq 1, \quad i=1, \ldots, m\\
& g_i(x) = 1, \quad i=1, \ldots, p,
\end
where f_0,\dots,f_m are posynomials and g_1,\dots,g_p are monomials. I ...
Python
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Snakes
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* Python (mythology), a mythical serpent
Computing
* Python (pro ...
package GPKit.
NASA career
In 2017, Hoburg was selected as an astronaut candidate in
NASA Astronaut Group 22
NASA Astronaut Group 22 (nicknamed "The Turtles") is a group of twelve NASA astronauts selected in June 2017. They were joined by two Canadian Space Agency astronauts for training.
History
NASA announced the creation of this astronaut group in ...
, and began the two-year training in August.
In December 2020 he was announced as one of the eighteen NASA astronauts selected as part of the
Artemis Program
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for a lunar mission in 2024.
He was the pilot of
SpaceX Crew-6
SpaceX Crew-6 is the sixth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the ninth overall crewed orbital flight. The mission launched on 2 March 2023 at 05:34:14 UTC, and it successfully docked to the Inter ...
that launched on March 2, 2023.
Personal life
Hoburg is an avid rock climber, mountaineer, and pilot. He has previously worked wit
Yosemite Search & Rescue and th
Bay Area Mountain Rescue Unit
Awards and honors
Hoburg was a
National Science Foundation
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research fellow from 2009 to 2013, and is a two-time recipient of the
AIAA
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA is the U.S. representative on the International Astronautical Federation and the International Council of ...
Aeronautics and Astronautics Teaching Award.
References
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1985 births
Living people
American aerospace engineers
American astronauts
American aviators
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
MIT School of Engineering alumni
People from Pittsburgh
Spacewalkers
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni