Charles Owen Hobaugh

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Charles Hobaugh
Charles Hobaugh
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on May 1, 1996
(16th NASA Group)
Calls: 3 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		July 12, 2001
Landing of the
last space flight: 		November 27, 2009
Time in space: 36d 7h 47min
retired on September 23, 2011
Space flights

Charles Owen "Charlie" Hobaugh (born November 5, 1961 in Bar Harbor , Maine , USA ) is a former American astronaut . He left NASA in September 2011.

education

Hobaugh grew up in Alaska , where his father served in the Coast Guard . He graduated from high school in North Ridgeville, Ohio in 1980 . He then joined the US Marines (USMC) at and graduated from the US Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis ( Maryland ) aerospace engineering. In 1984 the USNA awarded him a bachelor's degree and an “outstanding graduate” award.

Military career

In the spring of 1984 Hobaugh began his service with the USMC . First he was trained as an officer in Virginia - the basic course at the Officer Candidates School (three months) was followed by an advanced course at the Basic School (six months). Then he made a military pilot training with subsequent training on the AV-8B "Harrier" before he was assigned to the attack squadron 331 (USMC code VMA-331). The base of the VMA-331, called "Bumblebees", is Beaufort in South Carolina .

Hobaugh was stationed twice with the VMA-331 in Japan at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni: from December 1987 to June 1988 and between June and December 1989. Hobaugh then took part as a fighter pilot in the Second Gulf War. The "Bumblebees" flew their missions from the aircraft carrier "USS Nassau" , which served eight and a half months as the headquarters of the commander of the amphibious fleet and supported the companies "Desert Shield" and "Desert Storm".

Hobaugh then left the 331st Squadron and was trained as a test pilot for a year at the United States Naval Test Pilot School (USNTPS) on Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland . In June 1992 he had passed with honors and was transferred to the Naval Aircraft Test Center, also located on Patuxent River. He worked at the Strike Aircraft Test Directorate as a project officer on the further development of the AV-8 "Harrier". After two years, Hobaugh returned to the USNTPS in July 1994 and taught there as an instructor until he switched to NASA.

Astronaut activity

Hobaugh had been fascinated by aviation since he was a child. His father always took him with him when he flew in Alaska to run errands or the like. As a youth, he always hunkered down on military bases to admire the pilots and their machines. So he could fly before he could even drive a car. To pay for flight lessons, he delivered newspapers, mowed lawns, or mucked out horse stables. A friend he had served with on the USS Nassau during the Gulf War told him that he had applied to NASA to be an astronaut. Charlie found it so interesting that he also turned in his papers.

Hobaugh's first application as an astronaut was accepted and so he and 34 colleagues from NASA were presented in early May 1996. In mid-August, the 16th group began their two-year basic training at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas . Afterward, Hobaugh was a full-fledged shuttle pilot, working in the spacecraft systems division of the astronauts office. During this time he mainly took care of the further development of the orbiter cockpit.

STS-104

Since September 2000 Hobaugh has been preparing for his first space flight. He flew as a pilot on the STS-104 mission that transported the Quest airlock to the International Space Station (ISS) in July 2001 . The two mission specialists Mike Gernhardt and Jim Reilly connected the US $ 164 million lock with the ISS with three space exits.

After that, "Scorch", as Hobaugh's nickname among his comrades, was responsible as CapCom for radio communications between the shuttle, the ISS and ground control. He was also the CapCom on the landing approach of the Columbia STS-107 and also witnessed its crash first hand. When the telemetry connection was broken, he tried to communicate this to Shuttle Commander Rick Husband over the radio. Husband answered, but in the next sentence the connection was broken.

STS-118

In December 2002 he was appointed to pilot STS-118 . This flight took place in August 2007. The S5 carrier was transported to the international space station and 2.2 tons of equipment were delivered with the Spacehab module.

STS-129

Hobaugh was nominated for the STS-129 space shuttle mission in September 2008 . On November 16, 2009 he started as commander of the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. The misson brought supplies, spare parts and experiments to the ISS with the help of the EXPRESS Logistics Carrier (ELC) 1 and 2.

Civil career

Hobaugh left NASA in September 2011 and was hired by the global US courier and logistics company FedEx ; he is currently a McDonnell Douglas MD-11 first officer.

Private

Hobaugh is married and has four children.

See also

Web links

Commons : Charles O. Hobaugh  - collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  1. ↑ NASA Release J11-023: Astronauts Robert Satcher and Charles Hobaugh Leave NASA. NASA, September 26, 2011, accessed September 28, 2011 .
  2. ↑ NASA Assigns Crew For Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-129 Mission. NASA, September 30, 2008, accessed September 15, 2009 .
personal data
SURNAME Hobaugh, Charles Owen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hobaugh, Charlie (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bar Harbor , Maine , USA