NASA Selects Eric Boe for Commercial Crew
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Channel: NASA's Kennedy Space Center · 2015 · Science & Technology
Eric Boe is one of four astronauts selected by NASA for Commercial Crew. Bob Behnken, Boe, Doug Hurley and Suni Williams have been selected to be the first astronauts to train for test flights to the International Space Station on Boeing’s CST-100 and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. Boe, a colonel in the Air Force, was born in Miami and grew up in Atlanta. He served as pilot on two space shuttle missions, accumulating more than 28 days in space. He has served in high management roles for NASA's Astronaut Office and at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. His shuttle missions were STS-126 and STS-133.
