NAME: Charles "Scorch" Owen
Hobaugh (Lieutenant Colonel, USMC)
NASA Astronaut
PERSONAL
DATA: Born November
5, 1961 in Bar Harbor, Maine. Married to the former Corinna Lynn Leaman of East
Petersburg, Pennsylvania. They have four children. He enjoys weight
lifting, volleyball, boating, water skiing, snow skiing, soccer, bicycling,
running, rowing, triathlons. His parents, Jimmie and Virginia Hobaugh, reside in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. Her parents,
Jerry and Dottie Leaman, reside in East Petersburg, Pennsylvania.
EDUCATION: Graduated from North Ridgeville
High School, North Ridgeville Ohio, in 1980; received a Bachelor of Science
degree Aerospace Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1984.
ORGANIZATIONS: U.S. Naval Academy Alumni
Association.
SPECIAL
HONORS:
Distinguished Graduate U.S. Naval Academy, Joe Foss Award for Advanced Jet
Training, Graduated with Distinction U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. Awarded the Strike/Flight Air Medal, Navy and Marine Corps
Achievement Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Unit Commendation, and various
other service awards.
EXPERIENCE: Hobaugh
received his commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Marine
Corps from the United States Naval Academy in May 1984. He graduated from the
Marine Corps Basic School in December 1984.
After a six
month temporary assignment at the Naval Air Systems Command, he reported to
Naval Aviation Training Command and was designated a Naval Aviator in February
1987.
He then
reported to Marine V/STOL Attack Squadron VMAT-203 for initial AV-8B Harrier
Training. Upon completion of this training, he was assigned to Marine Attack
Squadron VMA-331 and made overseas deployments to the Western Pacific at MCAS Iwakuni Japan and flew combat missions in the Persian Gulf
during Desert Shield/Desert Storm embarked aboard the USS Nassau. While
assigned to VMA-331, he attended Marine Aviation Warfare and Tactics Instructor
Course and was subsequently assigned as the Squadron Weapons and Tactics
Instructor.
Hobaugh
was selected for U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and began the course in June
1991. After graduation in June 1992, he was assigned to the Strike Aircraft
Test Directorate as an AV-8 Project Officer and as the ASTOVL/JAST/JSF Program
Officer. While there, he flew the AV-8B, YAV-8B (VSRA) and
A-7E.
In July
1994, he went back to the Naval Test Pilot School as an Instructor in the
Systems Department, where he flew the F-18, T-2, U-6A and gliders. Hobaugh was assigned to the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School
when he was selected for the astronaut program.
He has
logged over 3,000 flight hours in more than 40 different aircraft and has over
200 V/STOL shipboard landings.
NASA
EXPERIENCE:
Selected by NASA in April 1996, Hobaugh reported to
the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. He completed two years of training and
evaluation, and was qualified for flight assignment as a pilot. Hobaugh was initially assigned technical duties in the Astronaut Office Spacecraft
Systems/Operations Branch.
Projects
included Landing and Rollout, evaluator in the Shuttle Avionics Integration
Laboratory, Advanced Projects, Multifunction Electronics Display Enhancements, Advanced
Cockpit and Cockpit Upgrade, Rendezvous and Close Proximity Operations and
Visiting Vehicles prior to his first flight assignment. Most recently, he
served as Capsule Communicator, working in the Mission Control Center as the
voice to the crew. Currently, he is assigned as pilot on STS-118, scheduled for
launch in 2007.
SPACE
FLIGHT EXPERIENCE: Hobaugh was assigned to, and flew as Pilot
on STS-104 (July 12-24, 2001). This mission was the 10th mission to the International Space
Station (ISS). During the 13-day flight the crew conducted joint operations
with the Expedition
2 crew and performed three spacewalks to install
the joint airlock "Quest" and to outfit it with four high-pressure gas tanks.
The mission was accomplished in 200 Earth orbits, traveling 5.3 million miles
in 306 hours and 35 minutes.
Last
Updated: May 2006
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