.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Room Center in Houston contains a variety of one-of-a-kind duties and privileges. Those feature being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is actually now preparing to launch to the International Spaceport Station alongside Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational objective under NASA's Commercial Staff Course. This will certainly be actually the 3rd launch and second objective to the spaceport station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has devoted 203 days in space.Hague was born and elevated in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university and career. He earned levels coming from the USA Air Troop Institute in Colorado and also the Massachusetts Institute of Modern Technology in Cambridge, and also he participated in the united state Air Force Examination Pilot School at Edwards Aviation Service Bottom in The Golden State. Hague's military job has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., and also featured a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague moved from the Air Force to the United State Room Interject 2020 after serving as the Space Power's director of test and also assessment at the Pentagon.No stranger to new spots, Hague vividly recalls creating his initial vacation to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, and it was a little bit mind-boggling. I recognized every person was seeing me and determining me," he claimed. "Luckily, despite the fact that I wasn't chosen after that, I received another possibility a couple of years later on. It is actually a rather wonderful place.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut training class. He was actually the first rocketeer from that team to be appointed to an objective, which released in Oct 2018 but was actually aborted soon after departure. His following spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has made a lot of moments at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his knowledge working onsite in the middle of the 2013 authorities cessation. "I am actually active-duty army so I still involved work," he detailed. "I remember being actually onsite and the center being completely vacant. Managing to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was tranquil as well as surreal." It was actually additionally a preview of what many Johnson workers experienced throughout the astronomical and how NASA sustains continuous help for spaceflight functions despite mitigating situations.Hague now expects yet another trip to low The planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX authorities presently consider to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The workers will ascend coming from Launch Intricate 40 coming from the Cape Canaveral Area Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Trip 72 team aboard the terminal. They will certainly join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and will definitely spend regarding 6 months conducting clinical study in microgravity and also finishing a series of working tasks prior to coming back home.Even more details concerning the purpose and team could be found through observing the Crew-9 blog post, @commercial_crew on X, or even business team on Facebook. You may also adhere to @astrohague on X and Instagram.