Background
Boe, Eric A. was born on October 1, 1964 in Miami, Florida, United States.
Boe, Eric A. was born on October 1, 1964 in Miami, Florida, United States.
He graduated from Henderson High School, Chamblee, Georgia in 1983. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Astronautical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy in 1987, and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1997. He completed Euro-North Atlantic Treaty Organization Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas in 1988.
He flew as the pilot of Space Shuttle missions STS-126 and STS-133. He was a cadet in the Georgia Wing of the Civil Air Patrol. While a cadet, Boe earned the General Carl A Spaatz Award, the highest award given to Civil Air Patrol cadets.
Boe was commissioned from the Air Force Academy in 1987.
Following transition training in the F-4 Phantom II, he was then assigned to the 3d Tactical Fighter Squadron at Clark Air Base in the Philippines as a combat ready pilot in the F-4E. In 1991, he served as a T-38 instructor pilot in the 50th Flying Training Squadron, and as an AT-38B instructor pilot in the 49th Fighter Training Squadron at Columbus Air Force Base, Mississippi. In 1994, following transition training in the F-15 Eagle at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, he was assigned to the 33rd Fighter Wing"s 60th Fighter Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, serving as a flight commander in the F-15C. He flew 55 combat missions over Iraq in support of Operation Southern Watch after the first Gulf War.
In 1997, he attended the United States Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California. After graduation he was assigned as the Director of Test, Air-to-Air Missile Test Division, 46th Test Wing, Eglin Air Force Base, where he served as a test pilot flying the A/B/C/Doctorate and East models of the F-15 and the UH-1N helicopter.
He has logged over 4,000 flight hours in more than 45 different aircraft.
Selected as an astronaut candidate by National Aeronautics and Space Administration in July 2000, Boe reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 2000. Following the completion of two years of training and evaluation, he was assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Advanced Vehicles Branch and Station Operations Branch. His current technical assignment involves work with displays and controls for future space vehicles.
He made his first trip to space as pilot of Space Shuttle Endeavour during STS-126 on November 14, 2008.
Boe flew his second space flight as pilot on STS-133, the final scheduled flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery and the third-to-last flight of the Space Shuttle program In August 2012, Boe was named Deputy Chief of the Astronaut Office.
In July 2015, National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Boe as one of the first astronauts for Commercial spaceflights. Subsequently, he has started working with Boeing and SpaceX to train in their commercial crew vehicles, along with the other chosen astronauts - Sunita Williams, Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley.
In addition to his current.
Member of Society Experimental Test Pilots, Civil Air Patrol.
Married Kristen Newman. 2 children.