.As the hub of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston holds a variety of distinct responsibilities and privileges. Those consist of being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Some of those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is currently readying to release to the International Space Station in addition to Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the nine rotational mission under NASA's Office Workers System. This will be actually the 3rd launch and also second goal to the space station for Hague, that was actually selected as a NASA astronaut in 2013 and has invested 203 times in space.Hague was birthed and also elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the nation for university and profession. He earned levels coming from the United States Sky Force Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Principle of Modern Technology in Cambridge, as well as he attended the USA Aviation service Examination Aviator School at Edwards Air Force Foundation in California. Hague's armed forces job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Aviation service to the USA Area Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Force's supervisor of test and analysis at the Government.No stranger to brand-new locations, Hague vividly recollects creating his initial trip to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I had no tip what to expect, as well as it was actually a little bit overwhelming. I recognized everyone was actually enjoying me and also evaluating me," he claimed. "Thankfully, although I wasn't decided on at that point, I acquired one more opportunity a few years later. It's a quite enchanting location.".Hague completed his astronaut training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was actually the 1st rocketeer from that group to be delegated to a goal, which launched in Oct 2018 however was aborted shortly after launch. His upcoming spaceflight took place in 2019, when he signed up with 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, as well as Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has created numerous memories at Johnson, however one that sticks out is his knowledge functioning onsite in the middle of the 2013 government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty armed forces so I still involved work," he explained. "I bear in mind being actually onsite and the center being fully unfilled. Having the ability to use around an empty school on the free-range bikes-- it was peaceful as well as surreal." It was also an examine of what several Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the widespread as well as how NASA sustains nonstop assistance for spaceflight functions no matter mitigating instances.Hague right now looks ahead to another adventure to reduced The planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX officials currently organize to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew is going to lift off coming from Introduce Sophisticated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Troop Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and also Monster spacecraft.Hague and Gorbonov will definitely become members of the Exploration 72 workers aboard the station. They will sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, as well as will devote concerning six months administering medical study in microgravity as well as accomplishing a series of operational tasks just before coming back home.More information concerning the goal and team could be discovered by complying with the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial crew on Facebook. You may additionally adhere to @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.