When asked in 2008 how growing up in Broadview Heights impacted the person he had become, Good replied, “It seems like there’s a lot of astronauts that come from Ohio and from Cleveland, and people ask me sometimes, ‘Why do you think that is?’ I really don’t know but there’s got to be something

to it.... It was a great place to grow up. The schools were great. Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School gave me a great background, prepared me well for college, to go on to take the courses in college, and so it was a great place to start.”

In high school, Good enjoyed the maths and the sciences and solving problems, so he studied engineering in college and grew increasingly interested in aerospace engineering. He liked airplanes and wanted to design and build airplanes and rockets and those kinds of things.

After earning undergrad and graduate degrees at Notre Dame, he entered the Air Force as an engineer, and then after navigator training became a weapons systems officer. He then got a chance to go through the test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, where he learned the tools necessary to apply for the astronaut program. Selected as a mission specialist by NASA in July 2000, Good reported for training at Johnson Space Center (JSC). Following two years of training and evaluation, he was assigned technical duties in the Advanced Vehicles Branch and the Space Shuttle Branch. After completing two Space Shuttle missions, he served as NASA liaison to Air Force Space Command in Colorado. He is currently back at JSC serving in the Commercial Crew Program.