RE-SCHEDULED: Launch of Student Rocketeer Turned NASA Astronaut to Space Station

                  

Student Rocketeer turned NASA Astronaut, Woody Hoburg, launches to the International Space Station.

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By Kenneth J. Good, Former President of the Tripoli Rocketry Association

Reporting for SpaceWatchtower

Editor's Note: NASA Astronaut Warren “Woody” Hoburg, who started as a Student Rocketeer, is one of four astronauts to launch for a mission to the International Space Station (ISS), in a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. The other astronauts in this SpaceX Crew-6 mission will be NASA Astronaut Stephen Bowen, Russian Cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, and an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates: Sultan Al Neyadi.

The launch, originally scheduled for early on Monday Morning, 2023 February 27, received a Nominal Launch Scrub just 2 minutes and 14 seconds before launch time, due to a problem with the fluids used to ignite the launch. NASA has decided to re-schedule the launch for early Thursday Morning, 2023 March 2 at 12:34 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) / 5:34 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Woody Hoburg, a native of the North Hills section of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, was a student member of the Tripoli Rocketry Association, one of two major rocketry clubs for high-power model rocketry, in the United States. The Tripoli Rocketry Association was founded on 1964 December 1 in Pittsburgh by Francis G. Graham, now Professor Emeritus of Physics at Kent State University. Early in his career, Professor Graham was a Planetarium and Observatory Lecturer at the original Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science / Buhl Science Center, America's fifth major planetarium and Pittsburgh's science and technology museum from 1939 to 1991.

The author of the article about Woody Hoburg, which can be found at the following Internet link, is Kenneth J. Good, one of the club's early members and former President of the Tripoli Rocketry Association.

Link >>> https://buhlplanetarium2.tripod.com/weblog/grahamscorner/goodkj/Hoburg_Article_V2.pdf

The launch, post-launch news conference, and the coverage of the docking with the ISS can be viewed on NASA-TV at the following Internet link:

Link >>> https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

The following is the tentative schedule of events, to be televised on NASA-TV ---

• - NASA / SpaceX Crew-6 Launch Coverage Begins:Wednesday, 2023 March 1, 9:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) / March 2, 2:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
  

• Launch from Kennedy Space Center, Florida: Thursday, 2023 March 2, 12:34 a.m. EST / 5:34 UTC

• Post-launch News Conference: Thursday, 2023 March 2, 2:30 a.m. EST / 7:30 UTC

• NASA / SpaceX Crew-6 Mission Coverage Resumes: Thursday, 2023 March 2, 11:30 p.m. EST / March 3, 4:30 UTC

• Docking with ISS: Friday, 2023 March 3, 1:17 a.m. EST / 6:17 UTC
  

After the NASA-TV launch broadcast concludes, coverage of the NASA / SpaceX Crew-6 free-flight to the International Space Station will continue, audio-only, on the NASA Mission Audio Live-Feed:

Link >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3slokO2g1v0

Internet Links to Additional Information ---

SpaceX Crew-6 -

Link 1 >>> https://www.nasa.gov/content/commercial-crew-resources

Link 2 >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-6 

Tripoli Rocketry Association:

Link 1 >>> https://www.tripoli.org/

Link 2 >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli_Rocketry_Association

Heidler, Scott. "NASA and SpaceX launch Crew-6 mission with North Allegheny alum on board."

WTAE-TV 4, Pittsburgh 2023 March 2.

Link >>> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-and-spacex-launch-crew-6-mission-with-north-allegheny-alum-on-board/ar-AA188s35?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=928b5ed64ba84e7bb2f3e7108020c1ad&ei=11

Wattles, Jackie. "SpaceX launches international crew of astronauts on space station mission."

CNN 2023 March 2.

Link >>> https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/01/world/spacex-nasa-crew-6-launch-thursday-scn/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0Gg1SrTDFxQ1Q9TfYwazQd5uRDVFJ8gVN-PX6ovp11mjv361Swn0gN-M0

Harwood, William.

"SpaceX launches two NASA astronauts, a cosmonaut and an Emerati on flight to space."

CBS 2023 March 2.

Link >>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-launches-two-nasa-astronauts-a-cosmonaut-and-an-emerati-on-flight-to-space-station/?fbclid=IwAR3e-ZMwagyO6_ZV_vyGckl6SakQAdqzaPV1OeGfHJjkGNrHt-pLfvsVYok

Kizer Whitt, Kelly. "Crew-6 launches from Florida, bound for ISS."

EarthSky.org 2023 March 2.

Link >>> https://earthsky.org/spaceflight/crew-6-launch-international-space-station/?fbclid=IwAR3XlI-DlvKgZwREVLXqG4mPitzBVvAzzx5YMO3bf7BBYtKKLj_s3h_3WYQ

Related Blog-Post ---

"UPDATE: Student Rocketeer Turned NASA Astronaut Travels to Space Station." Mon., 2023 Feb. 27. Link >>> https://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2023/02/student-rocketeer-turned-nasa-astronaut.html

Source: Glenn A. Walsh Reporting for SpaceWatchtower, a project of Friends of the Zeiss          

               Wednesday, 2023 March 1.

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