.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston holds a wide array of unique obligations and also benefits. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is actually right now prepping to release to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational goal under NASA's Commercial Team Course. This will definitely be actually the third launch and 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, who was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 times in space.Hague was actually birthed and elevated in Kansas but has crisscrossed the nation for college as well as job. He earned levels from the United States Air Force School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he participated in the USA Air Force Exam Pilot College at Edwards Flying Force Foundation in The Golden State. Hague's military career has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and featured a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transferred coming from the Aviation service to the USA Area Force in 2020 after functioning as the Area Pressure's supervisor of test as well as analysis at the Government.No stranger to brand new places, Hague clearly recollects creating his very first excursion to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no concept what to count on, and also it was a little overwhelming. I understood every person was actually enjoying me as well as evaluating me," he said. "The good news is, although I had not been selected then, I received another odds a handful of years eventually. It's a fairly magical place.".Hague completed his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was actually the 1st astronaut coming from that group to be assigned to an objective, which released in October 2018 yet was actually miscarried soon after takeoff. His following spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with three of his friends-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in lots of minds at Johnson, but one that stands apart is his knowledge working onsite among the 2013 authorities shutdown. "I am actually active-duty army so I still related to function," he detailed. "I keep in mind being actually onsite and also the facility being actually totally empty. Having the ability to ride around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and unique." It was likewise a sneak peek of what many Johnson employees experienced during the pandemic and also how NASA maintains day-and-night assistance for spaceflight procedures irrespective of extenuating situations.Hague currently expects another trip to low Earth orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities presently organize to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will certainly lift off from Introduce Intricate 40 from the Cape Canaveral Area Troop Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly spend concerning 6 months conducting clinical research in microgravity and finishing a stable of working tasks prior to coming back home.Even more details concerning the objective and also team may be located by observing the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial team on Facebook. You can easily also adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.