.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston holds a wide array of one-of-a-kind duties and privileges. Those include being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually currently readying to introduce to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational mission under NASA's Office Staff Plan. This will certainly be actually the third launch as well as second objective to the space station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has actually invested 203 days in space.Hague was born and raised in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the country for college and occupation. He got degrees coming from the United States Sky Troop Academy in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the USA Aviation service Exam Captain College at Edwards Aviation Service Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces occupation has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., as well as featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Air Force to the United State Area Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Force's supervisor of exam as well as analysis at the Pentagon.No stranger to brand new spots, Hague clearly recalls making his 1st trip to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no tip what to count on, and it was a little bit difficult. I knew everybody was seeing me as well as determining me," he stated. "Luckily, although I wasn't picked after that, I received one more opportunity a handful of years later on. It's a quite magical location.".Hague finished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer lesson. He was the 1st rocketeer coming from that group to be delegated to a goal, which introduced in Oct 2018 however was aborted quickly after launch. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with three of his friends-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has brought in numerous minds at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his adventure operating onsite amid the 2013 authorities closure. "I am actually active-duty military so I still came to function," he discussed. "I always remember being actually onsite and also the facility being actually fully unfilled. Being able to ride around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful and also surreal." It was actually additionally a sneak peek of what numerous Johnson employees experienced throughout the global and also just how NASA keeps day-and-night help for spaceflight operations irrespective of extenuating scenarios.Hague now expects yet another experience to low Planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX officials presently consider to launch the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will definitely take off from Launch Sophisticated 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space probe.Hague and also Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also will spend about 6 months conducting medical study in microgravity as well as accomplishing a stable of operational tasks before coming back home.More information about the goal as well as crew can be located through following the Crew-9 weblog, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial team on Facebook. You can additionally observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.