Astronaut Charles Hobaugh standing near the Spacecraft Communicator talks with astronaut Mark L. Polansky.

Astronaut Charles Hobaugh, standing near the Spacecraft Communicator (CAPCOM) console in the Shuttle Flight Control Room of the Johnson Space Center's Mission Control Center, talks with astronaut Mark L. Polansky (out of frame), STS-109 ascent CAPCOM. They were monitoring the pre-launch situation at the Kennedy Space Center launch site, several hundred miles away. Hobaugh's duties, among others, were to keep up with weather conditions at and around the launch site.