.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston holds a wide array of special tasks and also advantages. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is actually right now prepping to introduce to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine spinning purpose under NASA's Office Crew Plan. This will certainly be the third launch and also second purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, that was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and also has actually invested 203 days precede.Hague was born and elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university and also profession. He gained levels from the USA Sky Troop School in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he joined the U.S. Flying force Examination Aviator Institution at Edwards Air Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's military occupation has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the United State Space Interject 2020 after working as the Room Force's supervisor of examination and evaluation at the Pentagon.Familiar with new areas, Hague strongly recollects making his very first vacation to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no tip what to count on, and it was a little difficult. I understood everyone was actually viewing me and also judging me," he pointed out. "Luckily, although I wasn't picked at that point, I acquired yet another chance a handful of years later. It's a quite magical area.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the initial rocketeer coming from that group to be designated to an objective, which introduced in October 2018 however was actually miscarried quickly after departure. His upcoming spaceflight happened in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually made numerous moments at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his knowledge functioning onsite amid the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I'm active-duty military so I still pertained to work," he described. "I always remember being onsite as well as the center being totally vacant. Having the ability to use around a vacant campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and also surreal." It was actually likewise a sneak peek of what several Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the widespread as well as how NASA preserves nonstop support for spaceflight operations despite extenuating situations.Hague right now looks ahead to another experience to reduced Earth track. NASA as well as SpaceX officials currently organize to release the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will definitely ascend from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 workers aboard the station. They are going to join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and are going to invest regarding six months administering clinical analysis in microgravity and also accomplishing a stable of working tasks just before returning home.More information concerning the goal and also staff can be found through adhering to the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or even business team on Facebook. You can likewise observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.