.As the hub of human spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Area Center in Houston holds an assortment of one-of-a-kind responsibilities as well as advantages. Those include being the home of NASA's rocketeer corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually currently preparing to introduce to the International Spaceport Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the 9th spinning objective under NASA's Commercial Team Plan. This are going to be the third launch and also second objective to the space station for Hague, who was actually chosen as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually invested 203 times precede.Hague was actually birthed as well as raised in Kansas but has actually crisscrossed the nation for college and also profession. He gained degrees coming from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, as well as he attended the U.S. Aviation service Exam Aviator Institution at Edwards Aviation Service Base in The Golden State. Hague's army profession has taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, and also Washington, D.C., and also consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted from the Aviation service to the U.S. Room Interject 2020 after acting as the Space Pressure's director of test as well as evaluation at the Government.No stranger to brand new spots, Hague strongly recalls making his first journey to Johnson when he was interviewing to participate in NASA's rocketeer corps. "I possessed no concept what to expect, and also it was actually a bit difficult. I understood everyone was viewing me and evaluating me," he said. "Luckily, although I wasn't selected at that point, I got yet another opportunity a couple of years later. It's a rather magical place.".Hague accomplished his astronaut instruction in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st rocketeer class. He was actually the first astronaut from that group to become appointed to an objective, which introduced in October 2018 but was actually aborted not long after departure. His following spaceflight developed in 2019, when he participated in three of his schoolmates-- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has brought in several memories at Johnson, but one that sticks out is his experience operating onsite surrounded by the 2013 government cessation. "I am actually active-duty military so I still pertained to operate," he revealed. "I remember being onsite and also the facility being actually totally vacant. Having the capacity to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually calm and surreal." It was actually likewise a preview of what several Johnson employees experienced during the course of the pandemic and also exactly how NASA sustains round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight functions irrespective of extenuating situations.Hague now expects yet another journey to reduced The planet track. NASA as well as SpaceX representatives currently intend to release the Crew-9 purpose no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The crew will ascend from Introduce Sophisticated 40 coming from the Peninsula Canaveral Area Force Terminal in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Dragon space capsule.Hague as well as Gorbonov will certainly enter of the Trip 72 staff aboard the terminal. They are going to sign up with NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, and Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin as well as Ivan Vagner, and also will definitely spend concerning 6 months conducting clinical investigation in microgravity and also completing a stable of working activities prior to returning home.Additional details about the goal and also workers may be discovered by following the Crew-9 blog, @commercial_crew on X, or commercial crew on Facebook. You can additionally observe @astrohague on X and also Instagram.