.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Facility in Houston carries a selection of one-of-a-kind duties as well as opportunities. Those consist of being the home of NASA's astronaut corps.One of those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is now prepping to release to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos astronaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth rotational goal under NASA's Office Crew System. This will be the 3rd launch as well as 2nd mission to the space station for Hague, who was actually selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has spent 203 times precede.Hague was actually born as well as elevated in Kansas however has crisscrossed the country for university and also profession. He gained degrees coming from the USA Sky Force School in Colorado as well as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, as well as he went to the U.S. Flying force Examination Aviator School at Edwards Aviation Service Base in California. Hague's armed forces career has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., as well as included a five-month release to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Aviation service to the United State Area Force in 2020 after serving as the Space Power's supervisor of examination and evaluation at the Government.No stranger to brand-new locations, Hague vividly recollects producing his initial trip to Johnson when he was actually speaking with to join NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no concept what to expect, as well as it was actually a bit frustrating. I knew everybody was seeing me as well as evaluating me," he mentioned. "The good news is, even though I wasn't chosen after that, I obtained yet another chance a handful of years later. It is actually a quite magical place.".Hague accomplished his rocketeer training in July 2015 as portion of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was the very first rocketeer coming from that team to become designated to a purpose, which launched in October 2018 however was actually miscarried not long after launch. His following spaceflight happened in 2019, when he participated in 3 of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Space Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has actually made several minds at Johnson, yet one that sticks out is his knowledge operating onsite amidst the 2013 government shutdown. "I'm active-duty army so I still came to work," he discussed. "I don't forget being actually onsite and also the facility being actually entirely vacant. Being able to ride around a vacant grounds on the free-range bikes-- it was quiet and unique." It was actually additionally an examine of what a lot of Johnson workers experienced during the course of the pandemic as well as how NASA maintains day-and-night support for spaceflight operations no matter extenuating circumstances.Hague right now looks ahead to another quest to low Earth orbit. NASA and also SpaceX representatives currently prepare to introduce the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The team will certainly take off coming from Launch Sophisticated 40 from the Peninsula Canaveral Space Troop Station in Florida aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft and Dragon spacecraft.Hague as well as Gorbonov will become members of the Trip 72 workers aboard the terminal. They will definitely sign up with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, as well as Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and also Ivan Vagner, and also are going to invest regarding six months administering clinical study in microgravity and finishing a series of working activities prior to returning home.Additional details about the purpose and also team can be located through following the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or industrial workers on Facebook. You can additionally follow @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.