.As the center of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston holds a variety of one-of-a-kind obligations and privileges. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is currently readying to launch to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning mission under NASA's Office Staff Program. This will be the 3rd launch and also 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, who was actually picked as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and also has devoted 203 days in space.Hague was born and also elevated in Kansas however has actually crisscrossed the nation for college as well as career. He made degrees coming from the United States Sky Troop Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he participated in the united state Aviation service Examination Fly Institution at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's military job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month release to Iraq. Hague moved from the Air Force to the United State Room Interject 2020 after functioning as the Room Pressure's supervisor of examination and also assessment at the Government.No stranger to brand new locations, Hague strongly remembers making his initial journey to Johnson when he was actually interviewing to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to expect, and also it was actually a little mind-boggling. I recognized every person was viewing me and also determining me," he stated. "The good news is, despite the fact that I had not been picked at that point, I acquired an additional chance a handful of years eventually. It's a rather magical place.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was the very first astronaut from that team to be appointed to a mission, which introduced in Oct 2018 but was miscarried shortly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight happened in 2019, when he joined three of his classmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has created numerous moments at Johnson, however one that stands apart is his adventure functioning onsite amidst the 2013 authorities closure. "I'm active-duty military so I still came to function," he explained. "I don't forget being onsite and the facility being entirely unfilled. Having the capacity to use around an unfilled university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful and also surreal." It was likewise an examine of what several Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the astronomical and just how NASA keeps round-the-clock help for spaceflight procedures regardless of mitigating situations.Hague right now looks ahead to yet another trip to reduced Earth track. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently plan to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to lift off from Launch Complex 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Monster space probe.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 team aboard the station. They will participate in NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will spend about 6 months administering clinical analysis in microgravity as well as completing a stable of working tasks prior to coming back home.Even more information concerning the goal as well as staff could be located by complying with the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or business workers on Facebook. You may likewise observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.