.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston carries a range of distinct tasks and also benefits. Those consist of being actually the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those rocketeers-- Chip Hague-- is now preparing to launch to the International Space Station along with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th rotational objective under NASA's Office Workers Course. This will certainly be the 3rd launch and also 2nd objective to the spaceport station for Hague, that was actually chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually spent 203 times in space.Hague was actually birthed as well as elevated in Kansas yet has crisscrossed the nation for college and also job. He earned levels coming from the USA Air Force School in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he joined the united state Air Force Exam Pilot School at Edwards Flying Force Base in California. Hague's military job has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month deployment to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Aviation service to the United State Room Interject 2020 after working as the Room Pressure's supervisor of examination and evaluation at the Pentagon.Familiar with brand-new spots, Hague clearly recollects creating his first travel to Johnson when he was actually questioning to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I had no suggestion what to count on, as well as it was a bit overwhelming. I understood everyone was actually watching me and also evaluating me," he pointed out. "Thankfully, despite the fact that I wasn't selected then, I got yet another odds a few years eventually. It is actually a quite magical spot.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as component of NASA's 21st astronaut lesson. He was actually the 1st rocketeer coming from that group to be delegated to an objective, which introduced in October 2018 but was actually miscarried soon after departure. His upcoming spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined three of his schoolmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 and also 60.Hague has brought in a lot of memories at Johnson, however one that attracts attention is his expertise functioning onsite amid the 2013 federal government cessation. "I'm active-duty army so I still came to operate," he revealed. "I remember being onsite and the facility being fully empty. Having the ability to use around a vacant university on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm as well as unique." It was additionally a sneak peek of what a lot of Johnson staff members experienced during the widespread as well as how NASA sustains day-and-night assistance for spaceflight functions despite extenuating instances.Hague right now looks ahead to one more trip to low The planet orbit. NASA and SpaceX officials currently plan to launch the Crew-9 goal no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will definitely take off from Release Complex 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Room Troop Terminal in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as well as Monster space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Expedition 72 team aboard the terminal. They will join NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and also Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will certainly invest about 6 months administering scientific analysis in microgravity and also accomplishing a range of functional tasks prior to returning home.Even more particulars regarding the purpose and team may be located by complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial crew on Facebook. You can likewise comply with @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.