.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a selection of distinct duties and also advantages. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.One of those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually now readying to introduce to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning mission under NASA's Office Staff System. This will certainly be the 3rd launch as well as second objective to the space station for Hague, who was picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually devoted 203 days precede.Hague was birthed and elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the country for college and also occupation. He got degrees coming from the United States Sky Force School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and he went to the U.S. Flying force Exam Pilot University at Edwards Flying Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's army profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and included a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Aviation service to the U.S. Space Force in 2020 after serving as the Area Power's director of exam as well as analysis at the Government.Familiar with new spots, Hague vividly remembers making his very first travel to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to expect, and also it was actually a little difficult. I understood everybody was actually watching me and also determining me," he mentioned. "The good news is, despite the fact that I had not been decided on at that point, I acquired yet another odds a few years eventually. It is actually a quite wonderful area.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the first astronaut from that group to become appointed to a mission, which released in October 2018 yet was actually aborted quickly after departure. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually made numerous minds at Johnson, however one that stands apart is his experience working onsite amidst the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still concerned function," he explained. "I don't forget being onsite and also the center being actually fully unfilled. Managing to ride around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was serene as well as unique." It was actually additionally an examine of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced during the global as well as how NASA maintains day-and-night support for spaceflight operations despite extenuating conditions.Hague right now looks ahead to an additional adventure to low Earth track. NASA and also SpaceX authorities presently prepare to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to take off from Release Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 crew aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly invest about six months carrying out scientific study in microgravity as well as completing a series of functional activities just before coming back home.Even more particulars regarding the goal as well as team may be discovered by following the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial staff on Facebook. You can easily likewise observe @astrohague on X and Instagram.