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as a kid I always loved things that fly

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I was always attracted to airplanes and

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Rockets just loved space and I was just

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always attracted to the mystery of

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what's beyond

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my name is Woody hoberg and I'm the

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pilot for NASA's crew 6 mission to the

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International Space Station

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I grew up north of Pittsburgh

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Pennsylvania and I was lucky to go to a

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wonderful public school called North

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Allegheny High School

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participated in a lot of winter sports

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so I enjoyed growing up in the cold

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I think my first dream was to be a ski

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patroller

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and not long after that I decided I

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wanted to be an astronaut

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I think I was always even as a kid

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attracted to

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technical things and also to problem

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solving I got deeply involved with

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something called the Tripoli rocketry

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Association and started building my own

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large-scale amateur Rockets the largest

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one I built was 21 feet tall 16 inches

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in diameter it weighed well over 100

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pounds the hard part is getting it back

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in one piece I was sewing my own

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parachutes on my mom's sewing machine so

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there were some additional features that

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I built into these things

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since College I've been very active as a

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rock climber and so in grad school I I

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wanted to kind of take that to the next

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level and I I had a desire to maybe

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serve more and so I became an EMT I

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became a member of Yosemite search and

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rescue so I was spending most of the

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year at Berkeley working on my PhD but

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then in the Summers I was stationed in

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Yosemite National Park and then I

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ultimately went to MIT as a young

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faculty member and led a research group

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studying convex optimization for

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engineering design I would probably

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still be there except that I got

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selected to come to NASA and be an

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astronaut I got a call from Chris

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Cassidy he told me the incredible news

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that they wanted me to come down to

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Houston and start training I could not

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believe the words I was hearing it was

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surreal I knew that eventually I might

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have an opportunity to actually fly a

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mission and so getting the phone call

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realizing that process was starting was

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a really special day for me one that I

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will never forget

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we have an absolutely amazing crew I

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couldn't be happier with all three of my

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crewmates I'm just so excited to spend

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time

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living and working in space with them

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and do this Mission together we've

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enjoyed training together both at Nasa

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and our trips out to Hawthorne to train

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with SpaceX it feels like we really are

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gelled and we're ready to execute the

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mission

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I'm excited to carry on a small piece of

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the more than 22-year history of

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continuous human presence aboard ISS

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it's quite surreal now having actually

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achieved that childhood dream and