.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston accommodates a variety of distinct responsibilities as well as advantages. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually currently readying to introduce to the International Space Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning mission under NASA's Business Team System. This will be the third launch and second goal to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has invested 203 days precede.Hague was actually born and elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university and also occupation. He made degrees from the USA Air Force Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the U.S. Flying force Examination Captain School at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in California. Hague's armed forces career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Air Force to the United State Room Force in 2020 after working as the Space Force's director of exam as well as assessment at the Government.Familiar with brand new locations, Hague clearly recollects creating his first vacation to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to sign up with NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no tip what to count on, and it was a little bit overwhelming. I understood everyone was enjoying me as well as judging me," he said. "Fortunately, even though I had not been chosen then, I received one more possibility a few years eventually. It's a quite enchanting area.".Hague accomplished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the very first rocketeer coming from that team to become assigned to a goal, which introduced in October 2018 yet was actually aborted soon after departure. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually created lots of memories at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his expertise working onsite in the middle of the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still involved work," he revealed. "I bear in mind being onsite as well as the facility being actually completely empty. Having the capacity to use around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful and surreal." It was likewise an examine of what several Johnson employees experienced during the global and exactly how NASA keeps continuous help for spaceflight functions regardless of mitigating circumstances.Hague currently expects yet another quest to reduced Planet track. NASA and also SpaceX authorities currently prepare to launch the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew is going to ascend coming from Launch Sophisticated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space capsule.Hague and also Gorbonov are going to enter of the Exploration 72 staff aboard the station. They will certainly participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will definitely invest about 6 months conducting clinical analysis in microgravity and also finishing a stable of functional tasks prior to returning home.More particulars about the goal and also workers could be found by complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial team on Facebook. You can easily also comply with @astrohague on X and Instagram.