.As the center of individual spaceflight, NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston accommodates a range of distinct responsibilities and benefits. Those feature being actually the home of NASA's astronaut corps.Among those astronauts-- Chip Hague-- is actually right now preparing to introduce to the International Space Station together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov on the ninth spinning mission under NASA's Business Crew System. This will definitely be actually the third launch as well as 2nd purpose to the spaceport station for Hague, who was selected as a NASA rocketeer in 2013 as well as has actually devoted 203 times in space.Hague was born and raised in Kansas yet has actually crisscrossed the country for university as well as job. He earned degrees coming from the United States Sky Force Institute in Colorado and the Massachusetts Institute of Innovation in Cambridge, and he attended the united state Flying force Test Fly Institution at Edwards Flying Force Base in The Golden State. Hague's armed forces profession has actually taken him to New Mexico, Colorado, Virginia, as well as Washington, D.C., and consisted of a five-month implementation to Iraq. Hague transmitted coming from the Flying force to the USA Area Interject 2020 after working as the Area Force's director of exam and also evaluation at the Government.No stranger to new places, Hague strongly recalls creating his very first vacation to Johnson when he was interviewing to sign up with NASA's astronaut corps. "I possessed no idea what to anticipate, and it was actually a little bit overwhelming. I recognized every person was viewing me and evaluating me," he pointed out. "Fortunately, despite the fact that I had not been decided on then, I got yet another opportunity a handful of years eventually. It is actually a quite enchanting area.".Hague accomplished his astronaut training in July 2015 as part of NASA's 21st astronaut class. He was actually the very first astronaut coming from that group to become appointed to a purpose, which introduced in Oct 2018 however was actually aborted not long after departure. His next spaceflight occurred in 2019, when he joined 3 of his classmates-- NASA rocketeers Jessica Meir, Christina Koch, and also Andrew Morgan-- aboard the International Spaceport Station for Expeditions 59 as well as 60.Hague has made several memories at Johnson, yet one that stands out is his adventure working onsite surrounded by the 2013 government shutdown. "I am actually active-duty military so I still pertained to work," he discussed. "I keep in mind being actually onsite and the center being actually entirely empty. Managing to use around an empty campus on the free-range bikes-- it was actually tranquil as well as unique." It was actually also a sneak peek of what many Johnson staff members experienced during the course of the widespread and also how NASA preserves round-the-clock assistance for spaceflight functions no matter mitigating instances.Hague now looks ahead to another quest to low Planet orbit. NASA as well as SpaceX authorities presently consider to launch the Crew-9 objective no earlier than Wednesday, Sept. 25. The staff is going to ascend from Release Complex 40 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Fla aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and also Monster space capsule.Hague and Gorbonov will enter of the Exploration 72 crew aboard the terminal. They will participate in NASA rocketeers Butch Wilmore, Suni Williams, as well as Don Pettit, and also Roscosmos astronauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as will definitely devote concerning six months conducting scientific research in microgravity and also finishing a variety of operational tasks just before coming back home.Additional information regarding the objective as well as staff can be discovered through complying with the Crew-9 blogging site, @commercial_crew on X, or even business staff on Facebook. You can also observe @astrohague on X as well as Instagram.