.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston holds a range of special accountabilities and also privileges. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually now preparing to release to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational mission under NASA's Industrial Staff Program. This will be the 3rd launch and also 2nd mission to the spaceport station for Hague, who was actually picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually invested 203 times precede.Hague was born and also raised in Kansas but has crisscrossed the country for university and job. He got degrees coming from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and he joined the USA Air Force Examination Fly College at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., as well as consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Flying force to the USA Room Force in 2020 after functioning as the Space Force's supervisor of test and also analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to new locations, Hague vividly recalls making his very first travel to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no concept what to count on, as well as it was actually a little bit mind-boggling. I knew everyone was actually viewing me and judging me," he stated. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I had not been selected then, I obtained one more odds a few years later. It is actually a quite magical place.".Hague finished his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut course. He was actually the 1st rocketeer coming from that team to become appointed to an objective, which released in October 2018 but was actually miscarried quickly after launch. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has created several moments at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his experience working onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government closure. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still came to work," he described. "I don't forget being actually onsite and also the facility being actually fully vacant. Having the ability to ride around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was quiet and also unique." It was actually likewise a preview of what many Johnson staff members experienced in the course of the astronomical and also just how NASA sustains nonstop help for spaceflight functions irrespective of mitigating conditions.Hague right now looks ahead to another journey to low Planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX officials presently plan to release the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will definitely lift off coming from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Cape Canaveral Room Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft as well as Dragon space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Expedition 72 staff aboard the terminal. They will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as are going to spend concerning six months carrying out medical study in microgravity as well as completing a range of operational activities just before coming back home.More details regarding the goal as well as staff can be discovered by complying with the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or office crew on Facebook. You can also comply with @astrohague on X and also Instagram.