.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston holds a variety of distinct duties and opportunities. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is currently readying to release to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning purpose under NASA's Office Team Plan. This will certainly be the 3rd launch and second mission to the space station for Hague, who was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 days precede.Hague was actually born and also raised in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university and also profession. He gained levels coming from the United States Air Troop School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he attended the united state Air Force Exam Fly School at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in California. Hague's military occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the United State Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Pressure's director of examination and also examination at the Government.No stranger to new areas, Hague clearly recollects creating his first vacation to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no idea what to count on, and also it was actually a little bit difficult. I recognized everyone was seeing me as well as judging me," he stated. "The good news is, despite the fact that I wasn't selected after that, I received another chance a couple of years later. It is actually a fairly wonderful location.".Hague finished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the first astronaut coming from that team to become assigned to a goal, which launched in Oct 2018 but was actually miscarried shortly after launch. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually created lots of minds at Johnson, yet one that stands apart is his expertise working onsite amid the 2013 government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still concerned operate," he described. "I bear in mind being onsite as well as the center being actually totally unfilled. Being able to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was calm and also surreal." It was likewise a sneak peek of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the astronomical as well as exactly how NASA preserves continuous assistance for spaceflight procedures despite mitigating circumstances.Hague right now looks ahead to one more journey to reduced Earth track. NASA as well as SpaceX officials presently plan to release the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will definitely lift off coming from Launch Intricate 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will definitely join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also will invest about 6 months carrying out scientific research in microgravity and completing a series of functional tasks just before returning home.Additional information concerning the mission and team can be discovered by complying with the Crew-9 blog site, @commercial_crew on X, or office workers on Facebook. You may likewise follow @astrohague on X and Instagram.