Charles O. Hobaugh
American astronaut and US Marine Corps officer (born 1961) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Charles Owen Hobaugh (born November 5, 1961, in Bar Harbor, Maine[2]) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer. He has had three spaceflights, all of which were Space Shuttle missions to the International Space Station, lasting between 10 and 13 days.
Charles Hobaugh | |
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Born | Charles Owen Hobaugh (1961-11-05) November 5, 1961 (age 62) Bar Harbor, Maine, U.S. |
Education | United States Naval Academy (BS) University of Tennessee, Tullahoma |
Space career | |
NASA astronaut | |
Rank | Colonel, USMC |
Time in space | 36d 7h 47m[1] |
Selection | NASA Group 16 (1996) |
Missions | STS-104 STS-118 STS-129 |
Mission insignia | |
Hobaugh was selected to be an astronaut in 1996, and his first spaceflight was STS-104, for which he was designated pilot of Space Shuttle Atlantis. That mission took place in July 2001, less than a year after the space station received its first long-duration crew. His most recent spaceflight was in November 2009, STS-129 on Atlantis again; this time he was designated commander. In total, he has logged 36 days in space.