.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a range of one-of-a-kind accountabilities and also benefits. Those include being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is right now readying to release to the International Spaceport Station in addition to Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning objective under NASA's Office Staff Plan. This will be the 3rd launch and 2nd objective to the space station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually spent 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed as well as increased in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for college as well as profession. He made levels coming from the USA Air Force Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Principle of Innovation in Cambridge, and he went to the USA Aviation service Test Captain School at Edwards Flying Force Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Aviation service to the U.S. Area Force in 2020 after acting as the Area Force's supervisor of exam as well as examination at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new places, Hague clearly recalls producing his first vacation to Johnson when he was questioning to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was a little overwhelming. I understood every person was enjoying me and evaluating me," he claimed. "Thankfully, even though I had not been decided on then, I received yet another possibility a couple of years eventually. It is actually a rather wonderful spot.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as aspect of NASA's 21st rocketeer training class. He was actually the first astronaut from that group to become delegated to a goal, which launched in October 2018 however was actually miscarried shortly after takeoff. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with three of his friends-- 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 made a lot of memories at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his expertise operating onsite amid the 2013 government closure. "I'm active-duty military so I still concerned work," he discussed. "I don't forget being actually onsite and also the center being actually entirely vacant. Being able to ride around an unfilled grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was actually peaceful as well as surreal." It was also a preview of what numerous Johnson staff members experienced throughout the global and also exactly how NASA preserves continuous assistance for spaceflight operations despite mitigating situations.Hague now expects an additional experience to reduced Planet orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently intend to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly take off from Introduce Sophisticated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will become members of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the station. They will definitely join NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, and are going to devote concerning six months performing medical investigation in microgravity and also finishing a variety of working activities before returning home.Additional particulars concerning the purpose and also team may be found through adhering to the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even industrial crew on Facebook. You can easily additionally follow @astrohague on X and also Instagram.