.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston accommodates an assortment of distinct responsibilities and also advantages. Those consist of being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually right now readying to launch to the International Spaceport Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational mission under NASA's Commercial Team System. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and second purpose to the space station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 as well as has actually spent 203 days in space.Hague was actually birthed and also elevated in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for college as well as profession. He got degrees from the USA Air Force Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he attended the united state Flying force Test Captain University at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved from the Air Force to the USA Space Force in 2020 after functioning as the Room Force's director of test and analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand new places, Hague vividly remembers making his 1st trip to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no tip what to count on, as well as it was actually a little bit difficult. I knew everyone was actually enjoying me as well as judging me," he stated. "The good news is, although I had not been selected then, I received another opportunity a handful of years later on. It's a rather wonderful area.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the very first rocketeer from that team to become assigned to a goal, which launched in October 2018 yet was miscarried quickly after departure. His next spaceflight developed in 2019, when he signed up with three of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created lots of minds at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his expertise working onsite among the 2013 authorities cessation. "I'm active-duty army so I still concerned work," he discussed. "I bear in mind being onsite and the facility being entirely unfilled. Managing to ride around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was serene and unique." It was also a preview of what many Johnson workers experienced during the course of the pandemic and how NASA sustains day-and-night assistance for spaceflight procedures no matter mitigating circumstances.Hague currently expects yet another trip to low Planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX officials presently organize to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff will definitely take off from Release Intricate 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will definitely devote regarding 6 months carrying out scientific study in microgravity and finishing a series of functional tasks before returning home.Even more particulars regarding the objective as well as team may be discovered through following the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or office workers on Facebook. You can likewise follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.