.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Facility in Houston carries an assortment of special obligations and privileges. Those consist of being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is currently prepping to release to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning purpose under NASA's Office Team Plan. This are going to be actually the third launch as well as 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, who was decided on as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 and has invested 203 times in space.Hague was born and increased in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for university and job. He got degrees coming from the USA Sky Troop Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Technology in Cambridge, and he participated in the united state Flying force Exam Fly College at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's army career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague moved coming from the Flying force to the U.S. Space Force in 2020 after functioning as the Area Force's director of test and analysis at the Government.Familiar with brand-new locations, Hague strongly recalls creating his very first journey to Johnson when he was interviewing to join NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no suggestion what to anticipate, as well as it was a bit mind-boggling. I knew everyone was seeing me and also determining me," he stated. "Thankfully, despite the fact that I had not been decided on then, I acquired an additional possibility a couple of years later on. It is actually a pretty enchanting location.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer instruction in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was the initial rocketeer from that team to become assigned to an objective, which launched in Oct 2018 but was miscarried quickly after departure. His next spaceflight took place in 2019, when he participated in three of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has actually brought in many memories at Johnson, but one that stands out is his experience functioning onsite surrounded by the 2013 federal government cessation. "I am actually active-duty army so I still related to operate," he described. "I bear in mind being actually onsite and also the facility being actually completely empty. Having the capacity to use around an empty grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was serene and unique." It was likewise a sneak peek of what lots of Johnson workers experienced during the global and just how NASA maintains continuous support for spaceflight functions no matter mitigating situations.Hague currently expects yet another quest to reduced The planet track. NASA and also SpaceX officials currently consider to introduce the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will definitely take off from Introduce Complicated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and also Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 team aboard the station. They will certainly sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and will spend concerning six months performing scientific analysis in microgravity as well as completing a range of operational activities before returning home.Even more information about the goal as well as team can be located through complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial workers on Facebook. You may likewise observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.