.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston accommodates an assortment of distinct responsibilities and also opportunities. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually now readying to introduce to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational objective under NASA's Industrial Crew Program. This will definitely be actually the 3rd launch and second objective to the space station for Hague, that was selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually devoted 203 days in space.Hague was born and elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as job. He got degrees coming from the USA Sky Force Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and he participated in the united state Aviation service Examination Aviator School at Edwards Aviation Service Base in California. Hague's armed forces job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Flying force to the U.S. Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Power's supervisor of examination and evaluation at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand-new locations, Hague strongly recalls making his first trip to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no idea what to count on, and also it was a little bit difficult. I knew everybody was viewing me and judging me," he said. "Luckily, although I wasn't picked after that, I obtained an additional opportunity a few years later. It is actually a pretty wonderful area.".Hague finished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st rocketeer course. He was the 1st astronaut coming from that group to become assigned to a goal, which introduced in Oct 2018 yet was actually miscarried not long after departure. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually brought in lots of minds at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his adventure working onsite amidst the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty military so I still came to operate," he described. "I always remember being actually onsite and also the center being totally empty. Having the ability to use around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful and also unique." It was actually likewise a preview of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the pandemic and also exactly how NASA keeps day-and-night support for spaceflight operations irrespective of mitigating conditions.Hague now expects yet another journey to low The planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX officials currently plan to release the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will definitely ascend from Launch Sophisticated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They will definitely participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will definitely invest about six months administering clinical research in microgravity and also finishing a stable of operational tasks prior to returning home.Even more information regarding the goal and also team may be found through observing the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business workers on Facebook. You can easily likewise follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.