.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston holds an assortment of distinct responsibilities and benefits. Those consist of being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually now readying to introduce to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning mission under NASA's Office Staff Course. This are going to be actually the 3rd launch and also second mission to the space station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 times precede.Hague was born and also increased in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the nation for university and job. He gained degrees coming from the USA Sky Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and also he went to the U.S. Air Force Examination Captain School at Edwards Air Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Air Force to the USA Room Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Power's supervisor of examination as well as examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with new places, Hague strongly remembers producing his very first excursion to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to expect, as well as it was a bit overwhelming. I recognized everyone was actually seeing me and determining me," he mentioned. "The good news is, although I had not been selected then, I acquired another chance a couple of years eventually. It's a quite wonderful place.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the initial rocketeer coming from that group to be delegated to a goal, which introduced in Oct 2018 but was miscarried quickly after departure. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he joined three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has created many moments at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his experience functioning onsite in the middle of the 2013 federal government shutdown. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still pertained to function," he clarified. "I bear in mind being onsite and the facility being totally vacant. Having the capacity to ride around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil as well as unique." It was actually additionally a sneak peek of what several Johnson workers experienced during the course of the astronomical and also exactly how NASA maintains day-and-night help for spaceflight functions irrespective of extenuating conditions.Hague now looks ahead to an additional journey to reduced Earth orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX officials presently plan to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will lift off coming from Introduce Complex 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will certainly invest regarding six months conducting medical research study in microgravity and also completing a series of operational tasks prior to returning home.Additional information about the objective and also workers could be found by complying with the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or office team on Facebook. You can easily also comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.