.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Facility in Houston holds a range of special responsibilities and benefits. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually right now prepping to release to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning objective under NASA's Office Team Plan. This will certainly be the 3rd launch and second purpose to the space station for Hague, that was actually picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has actually devoted 203 days in space.Hague was birthed and also elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the country for university and also career. He gained levels coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he joined the united state Flying force Test Captain University at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's military career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred from the Aviation service to the USA Space Force in 2020 after working as the Space Force's supervisor of test and assessment at the Government.No stranger to brand new locations, Hague vividly recalls producing his first travel to Johnson when he was actually questioning to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to expect, as well as it was a little frustrating. I recognized every person was actually viewing me as well as evaluating me," he claimed. "Thankfully, even though I had not been selected after that, I acquired another possibility a couple of years eventually. It's a pretty enchanting location.".Hague finished his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was actually the 1st astronaut from that group to become designated to a mission, which introduced in Oct 2018 but was aborted quickly after takeoff. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he joined 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and 60.Hague has actually created several minds at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his adventure working onsite amid the 2013 federal government closure. "I'm active-duty armed forces so I still came to function," he described. "I remember being actually onsite as well as the facility being totally unfilled. Having the capacity to ride around an unfilled school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually relaxed and also surreal." It was actually additionally an examine of what numerous Johnson employees experienced during the widespread as well as how NASA preserves nonstop support for spaceflight procedures no matter extenuating conditions.Hague now looks ahead to one more experience to reduced The planet track. NASA and also SpaceX officials presently intend to launch the Crew-9 mission no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to lift off from Release Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also will certainly spend concerning six months carrying out scientific research study in microgravity and also finishing a series of functional activities prior to returning home.More details regarding the objective as well as team may be found by complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial crew on Facebook. You can also adhere to @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.